On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:

> > Err .. I don't agree.
> > Null means no data
> > False means error.
> 
> Maybe historically (PHP-wise) it does.
> But the way I see it, every fetch() can 'fail' for two reasons: an 
> expected well-defined reason (eof), and an unexpected undefined reason 
> (error). Labelling the well-defined reason as 'false' and the undefined 
> reason as 'null' is really quite defendable.

I think so too, but I wonder how much this is going to break :)

Derick

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