Add nil as documented :name option for GenServer.start_link - #15187
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Hey folks, this is just a tiny documentation improvement.
When explicitly passing
nilas the:nameoption for GenServer.start_link, the GenServer is started without a registered name (just like if no:nameoption had been passed).I found this potentially confusing since
nilis technically also an atom and reading the current version of the docs might lead someone to believe it might be possible to register a GenServer with the atom namenil.