On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 12:17:58AM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > A lot of src/string string_ operations are capable of dealing with NULL > strings currently [1]. *But* that's AFAIK specificied nowhere, and might just > be an accident, i.e. an extra (unneeded/unwanted) check for A NULL argument. > A consistent behavior would make all these things just errors, the same as we > got with the Null PMC, which has been created for this very reason - the same > as a SEGV in C, when accessing a NULL ptr.
Indeed, these _should_ all be errors. However, there is often no direct way to indicate an error when the output type has no out-of-band values, like INTVAL. And exceptions are still too expensive. So at present I'd consider this a misbug. -- Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
