Re: #set null in 2.0

2009-03-13 Thread apache
Hi, > Does anyone out there even remember why it wasn't allowed in the first place? Several Map implementations do not allow null values, so as the original Hashtable context implementation. > Does anyone out there rely on not being able to change variables to null? not me... Greetings, Christ

Re: #set null in 2.0

2009-03-12 Thread Byron Foster
On Mar 12, 2009, at 18:18 , Nathan Bubna wrote: In 1.x we have: directive.set.null.allowed = false I think that we should flip that to true and perhaps even remove the option in 2.0. Agreed. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-u

Re: #set null in 2.0

2009-03-12 Thread Nathan Bubna
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Will Glass-Husain wrote: > Hi, > > I think we should simply remove the option since it was really a > backwards compatibility hack.  Do we have a null object?  We should. We don't need a null object/keyword. $null works fantastically. Keep it simple. > In fact,

Re: #set null in 2.0

2009-03-12 Thread Will Glass-Husain
Hi, I think we should simply remove the option since it was really a backwards compatibility hack. Do we have a null object? We should. In fact, as a general rule for 2.0 I propose we just fix this stuff and remove the special casing. (Same issue for escaping of characters, by the way). WILL

#set null in 2.0

2009-03-12 Thread Nathan Bubna
In 1.x we have: directive.set.null.allowed = false I think that we should flip that to true and perhaps even remove the option in 2.0. Does anyone out there rely on not being able to change variables to null? Does anyone out there even remember why it wasn't allowed in the first place?