Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] FB 2.0 Road Map
Author Jonathan Neve
Dmitry Yemanov wrote:

>>Along the same lines, I think it would also be good to have a
>>"de-nullified" concatenation operator whereby null would be
>>equivalent to '', that is:
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>>Value | null evaluates to Value
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>And also treat NULL as zero in arithmetics, e.g. <value> + NULL to be
><value>?
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Sounds good to me! :-)

>>What do you think?
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>Over my dead body, sorry.
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I was only suggesting adding an operator, not changing the existing
behaviour. I understand that you would not want to do the latter, but
what's wrong with the former?

Jonathan Neve.


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