On 4/28/2011 2:59 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Still, it could be worse... I've seen a programs use 9999 to represent missing values, on the basis that nobody could ever have more than (say) 5000 invoices in the database...(I wish I was exaggerating.)
All 9s in a field for missing was once standard for Fortran programs. -- Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
