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Re: So what's null then if it's not nothing?

From: <michael_at_preece.net>
Date: 19 Nov 2005 18:53:51 -0800
Message-ID: <1132455231.343989.165560@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

Alexandr Savinov wrote:
>
> I wanted to say that
> - assigning null value, and
> - deleting a link record
> is one and the same (in the context of our discussion).

In Pick you would set the record to null and write it back. That records the fact that the thing is empty - which is entirely different to recording the absence of the thing.

Mike. Received on Sat Nov 19 2005 - 20:53:51 CST

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