It seems that some users of this list find my statements below to be offensive. I appoligize for any upset I may have caused.
Does anyone out there have an example of how they use use the indicator variables after the data has been retrieved? I'm always interested in making my code more efficient, and would welcome any examples where this is acheived with indicator variables. Dennis McGrath [email protected] [email protected] On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Dennis McGrath <[email protected]>wrote: > Now that we can easily turn off the message about a null value being > returned, I find the indicator variables totally unnecessary code bloat. > > In the rbase environment, at least, If I want to know if a null is > returned I can test the actual value returned. In over 25 years of > progamming rbase, the only use I ever had for the indicator variables was > to avoid throwing the error to make tracing easier. > > Dennis McGrath > [email protected] > [email protected] > > > >

