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

In article <1135009623.261858.9330_at_g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, boston103_at_hotmail.com says...
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> So is it your assertion that 2 + X evaluates to NULL if X happens to be
> NULL ? If so, what is '+' then ?

'+' is irrelevant. :) In any case, I'm not interested in defending how SQL NULLs work.

> > If booleanMethod() throws an exception.
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> One can give at least two possible answers to that:
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> Sort of obvious, no ?

So what? And what's with the snarkiness?

Minor nitpick, by the way: "true || booleanMethod()" *will* return true, due to shortcut evaluation---booleanMethod will not be called. I used the '|' (single bar) operator on purpose. One could do something similar in an SQL-like language, though it would inhibit the optimiser, of course.

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Jon