Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS @ Pike developers forum wrote:
>> Well, a NULL value basically has any type (in SQL). I'm not sure what
>> would be the most natural way to extend this into Pike, but I figured
>> that the closest we could get, was something like the code above.
>> Since the NULL value has "any" type, it's not lying as such.
>I think one should view this more from the Pike angle. If e.g.
>arrayp(x) is true, a pike programmer typically expects that all
>operators and calls for arrays would work for x. It's not possible to
>achieve that when x is an object (most builtin functions expecting
>arrays would still balk, for example). So even if you added a bunch of
>backtick functions it'd still not work 100%.
Ok, I see your point. I'll try and pickup the slack as soon as 7.9 sees
the light and help to get this going.
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Sincerely,
Stephen R. van den Berg.
"Good moaning!"
