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Re: [Chicken-users] New immediate values (was: DBI)
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John Cowan |
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Re: [Chicken-users] New immediate values (was: DBI) |
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Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:56:39 -0500 |
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felix winkelmann scripsit:
> > No, we realize that just as we need only one empty list (unlike Java, where
> > any list can have zero elements without losing its identity), we need only
> > one object that has:
> >
> > a unique identity, disjoint from all other objects
> > a unique type, disjoint from all other types
> > no information inside it
> >
>
> Why do we need this? I can't remember right now...
To represent the null object of foreign environments that do not conflate
null with the empty sequence -- not only SQL but also Lua, Java (and
other JVM languages), .NET, and others.
While this is an additional immediate object, it's only *one* additional
immediate object. I support it.
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- Re: [Chicken-users] New immediate values, (continued)
- Re: [Chicken-users] New immediate values, Ozzi Lee, 2008/02/29
- Re: [Chicken-users] New immediate values (was: DBI), John Cowan, 2008/02/29
- Re: [Chicken-users] New immediate values (was: DBI), felix winkelmann, 2008/02/29
- Re: [Chicken-users] New immediate values (was: DBI), Alaric Snell-Pym, 2008/02/29
- Re: [Chicken-users] New immediate values (was: DBI), John Cowan, 2008/02/29
- Re: [Chicken-users] New immediate values (was: DBI), Alaric Snell-Pym, 2008/02/29
- Re: [Chicken-users] New immediate values (was: DBI), John Cowan, 2008/02/29
- Re: [Chicken-users] New immediate values (was: DBI), Alaric Snell-Pym, 2008/02/29
- Re: [Chicken-users] New immediate values (was: DBI), John Cowan, 2008/02/29
- Re: [Chicken-users] New immediate values (was: DBI), felix winkelmann, 2008/02/29
- Re: [Chicken-users] New immediate values (was: DBI),
John Cowan <=
- Re: [Chicken-users] New immediate values (was: DBI), Thomas Chust, 2008/02/29
- Re: [Chicken-users] New immediate values (was: DBI), John Cowan, 2008/02/29
- Re: [Chicken-users] DBI, felix winkelmann, 2008/02/29
- Re: [Chicken-users] DBI, Graham Fawcett, 2008/02/29
- Re: [Chicken-users] DBI, Tobia Conforto, 2008/02/29
- Re: [Chicken-users] DBI, Graham Fawcett, 2008/02/27
- Re: [Chicken-users] DBI, Vincent Manis, 2008/02/27
- Re: [Chicken-users] DBI, Peter Bex, 2008/02/28
- Re: [Chicken-users] DBI, Graham Fawcett, 2008/02/28
- Re: [Chicken-users] DBI, Peter Bex, 2008/02/28