Hi Allen, > It would be less complex and therefore less prone to system administrator > and programmer error to just treat a nil and empty string the same. I > suggest:
I don't have a strong preference here. In theory, treating "nil" and "empty list" equally is somewhat ... dirty, so I would probably still prefer distinguishing them ... Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Database http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
