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It's all down to typing system. In PHP, providing
nulltostringargument is a TypeError. You have to use?string. Same in Typescript in strict mode. In Java, you can happily use null for everything without typesystem catching it.NaN is a float standard thing, every language that implements floats has NaN.
In my 18+ years as a PHP developer, I never once knew (at least afar as I can recall) that PHP supported NaN. TIL.