On Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 3:54:13 PM UTC-4, David Gold wrote:
>
> @Sebastian: If I understand you correctly, then it should at least be
> possible. If T is your datatype that behaves as such and x is the value of
> type T that designates missingness, then it seems you could
> straightforwardly write your own method to convert an Array{T} to a
> NullableArray{T} that sets a given entry in the target isnull field to true
> iff the corresponding entry in the argument array is x. I don't know how
> the pros and cons will play out for your specific use case.
>
It might be nice to add a constructor that supports arbitrary arrays, e.g.,
`NullableArray(data, data .== 9999)`, and does the conversions for you. In
this case, you will at least need to convert the BitArray to an Array{Bool}.
