Thanks, James. That answers the first question: It has been a conscious design decision, i.e. it's a feature.
On 27 August 2014 20:32, James HK <jamesin.hongkon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > [0] prevents text/string values of being empty. > > [0] > https://github.com/SemanticMediaWiki/SemanticMediaWiki/blob/master/includes/datavalues/SMW_DV_String.php#L16 > > PS: Haven't look at the issue itself but [0] should explain the > current codified behaviour. > > Cheers > > On 8/28/14, Stephan Gambke <s7ep...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 2014-08-27 18:04, Nathan Douglas wrote: >>> IMHO being able to make a relationship between something and nothing >>> isn't terribly useful. If you have a page about goats, you don't have >>> to specify that its capital city is nil, etc. >> >> I do not want to specify nil, I want to specify a string of length zero. >> There is a difference. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Slashdot TV. >> Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. >> http://tv.slashdot.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Semediawiki-devel mailing list >> Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
