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Why doesn't ConcurrentHashMap allow null keys/values?
Tests whether you know the reason is concurrency-specific ambiguity -- in a map accessed by multiple threads, get(key) returning null could mean either 'the key isn't present' or 'the key maps to null,' and that ambiguity is unresolvable without external locking, which defeats the point of a concurrent collection.
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