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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/18/2014 1:27 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:5303D033.7070505@canterbury.ac.nz" type="cite">M.-A.
Lemburg wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">The alternative
would be adding a new singleton to mean mostly
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the same thing as None, but having the property of comparing
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less than all other objects and then recommend its use in the
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DB-API for Python 3 applications...
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Which I think would be a <b class="moz-txt-star"><span
class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>really bad<span
class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> idea, because
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there would then no longer be One Obvious Way to
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represent and process null values.
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E.g. you would no longer be able to write
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'value is None' and trust it to work on all kinds
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of null value you're likely to get.
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Of course you couldn't... value is None would never work full Null
values, only for None, like it should.<br>
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