Re: [Python-Dev] Parrot -- should life imitate satire?

[Rasmus Lerdorf]

> Here's the straw man for an integration api for dynamic languages.
>
> typedef enum value_type{
>     dia_INTEGER,
>     dia_FLOAT,
>     dia_ASCII,
>     dia_UNISTRING,
>     dia_BYTESTRING,
>     dia_ARRAY,
>     dia_HASH,
>     dia_OBJECT
> } value_type;

Boolean and Null?  Null is sort of an oddball, but when dealing with
databases a NULL field is quite distinct from an empty string, a 0 or
however else you might otherwise choose to represent it.

-Rasmus>