Re: [Chicken-users] New immediate values (was: DBI)

[John Cowan]

felix winkelmann scripsit:

> Wether an sql-null value is immediate or not is an implementation
> detail which has no relevance to the discussion of a DBI API.

Quite true.  I have been using "immediate" rather illegitimately as a
shorthand for "unique object of a disjoint type".

However, I continue to insist that the need is not unique to DBI nor to
SQL databases.

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