Hello George, thinking twice and rechecking it is a bit more complicated though.
"NVL" in oracle means "Null-VaLue" or beter 'NULL Value replacement'. We want to replace the non-existing situation with a predefined value which is slightly different. Hence the name should be "NEL", "NEV" or "NEVAR" for "Non-Existing-Value-(Replacement)". sorry i had to read my own mail to recognize this fact. marcus Friday, April 16, 2004, 11:43:12 PM, you wrote: > Friday, April 16, 2004, 10:36:55 PM, you wrote: >> I vote for nvl(), as the oracle pl/sql function of the same name has >> this exact semantic. > Hello George, > that's avery good idea! > it is to weird to have a lot of people using this already. And a lot of > people would expect the exact behavior by its name. Jus because it exists > elsewhere and there a l ot of people use it. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
