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Re: Implementation of boolean types.

From: Mikito Harakiri <mikharakiri_nospaum_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 15 Jul 2005 10:15:02 -0700
Message-ID: <1121447702.632548.210400@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> 





Tony Andrews wrote:


> That would be a dumb treatment, really.  NULLs propagate in

> computations for numbers, because it makes sense to do so: we really

> don't know what 1+NULL is equal to.




Not quite: 1+NULL = NULL while sum(1,1,NULL) = 2
No elementary consistency.
Received on Fri Jul 15 2005 - 12:15:02 CDT












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