On Oct 12, 2009, at 10:52 pm, Tony Mann wrote:
> DM 0.9 turned blank strings into nil values for Integer properties, > which still seems like the right thing to do. Rejecting a blank > string as an illegal field value seems like the worst of all > possible behaviors. Except: nil.to_i # => 0 This is dangerous, because the user may well not have meant "0". > I do not see this as data scrubbing, but rather sensible > typecasting. The Integer property accepts strings like "5", so > accepting a string like "" is a natural feature. Except, there is no integer that can be represented as "". That's why I find this confusing. Ashley -- http://www.patchspace.co.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleymoran http://aviewfromafar.net/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DataMapper" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
