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

[Dan Sugalski]

At 10:26 AM 9/27/00 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 04:12:09AM -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> > The concept of C<null> as opposed to C<undef> is sometimes difficult for
> > people to understand.
>
>"People" in this context being the people who are reading perl6-language and
>purporting to be able to know what Perl 6 needs. People who ought to really
>understand Perl and how it works. If this concept is too difficult for them,
>then it really shouldn't exist. KISS.

SQL's NULL is an interesting and rather useful concept, though it's fairly 
mind-bending if you've not had much reason to use it. (The same can be said 
for OO programming, undef, and regular expressions) Whether (and how) it 
should be in perl is another matter entirely, of course.

                                        Dan

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