Blank resolution causing problems

Christian Robottom Reis kiko at async.com.br
Mon Apr 11 13:23:04 UTC 2005


On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 07:20:43AM +0300, Vlad Dascalu wrote:
> Gervase Markham wrote:
> 
> >(Using "NULL" in the database instead of "" may make database purists 
> >happier, but doesn't solve this problem as far as I can see.)
> 
> It would solve the issue of having (in the future :) ) custom 
> resolutions and one named "---" or "[None]", and then having confused 
> users all over the place. To begin with :)

Yeah, using strings to indicate cases with special semantics depresses
me somewhat, because it's one more codepath that needs to be
special-cased everywhere the name is created/changed..

Take care,
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