Martin B?hr wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 01:05:32PM +0200, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
>> Well, in light of learning that mappings cannot contain UNDEFINEDs, I
>> propose to introduce the following SqlNULL() type which should be returned
>> by any mappingvalues from Sql.Sql()->query() which are actually an SQL
>> NULL type.
>> Any thoughts? If there are no objections I'd like to get it into 7.8.
>introduction of a real NULL type has had a lot of discussion without any
>solution (did you miss that? :-)
I vaguely recall that, yes, but I'm not trying to solve the generic
case, just the SQL-case.
>and while i welcome this change i think it should get a lot of testing
>to make sure no code is negatively affected.
Obviously. Then again the proposed definition has some special
properties which make it almost transparent in a lot of existing code.
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Sincerely,
Stephen R. van den Berg.
"If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done?"
