On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 17:27 -0800, Darren Duncan wrote:
> 3. A flag that says we know that some operation failed, such as would
> be exploited in the " err "
> situations.
> This concept is like an exception which isn't thrown but returned.
"Dropping" an exception, perhaps? :)
> 1. I accept th
> "PS" == Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PS> I have occasionally felt it would be nice to be able to
PS> distinguish between shifting an explicit undef value off an array
PS> and calling shift() on an empty array without having to test the
PS> length of the array. Is that lik
I have occasionally felt it would be nice to be able to distinguish
between shifting an explicit undef value off an array and calling shift()
on an empty array without having to test the length of the array. Is that
likely to fall out of any of the current thinking? I do not want shift()
on an em
Rob Kinyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 12/16/05, Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Minor nit: we're discussing to the relational algebra and not the
>> relational Calculus (unless the topic changed and I wasn't paying
>> attention. I wouldn't be surprised :)
>
> Algebra, in general, is a s
