Re: RFC 263 (v1) Add null() keyword and fundamental data type

[H . Merijn Brand]

On 20 Sep 2000 04:12:09 -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> =head1 TITLE
> 
> Add null() keyword and fundamental data type
> 
> =head1 MIGRATION
> 
> None. New functionality.

Not true. Apart from the discussion if undef is the same as null, in which I
take no stance, Migration *is* an issue, cause if the null state is available,
DBI/DBD users *will* expect that NULL values from the database are yielded as
null values in perl and not as undef, the way it is implemented now. Same when
inserting data.

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