Why don't make the function return FALSE if parameter equals NULL ?

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2009/1/28 Paul Biggar <paul.big...@gmail.com>

> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Dan <d...@dancryer.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> You're assumption is wrong then, NULL isn't treated as not passing a
> >> value. The reason it worked with substr was by pure chance.
> >>
> >
> > Out of interest, is there a reason that that is the case? Surely passing
> > null would be best treated as the same as passing nothing?
>
> NULL is a value. There is no way to tell that when you pass NULL, you
> actually intended to pass nothing and use the default value.
>
> Paul
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