NULL indicator in Variant

Dmitry Olshansky dmitry.olsh at gmail.com
Thu Oct 27 06:19:01 PDT 2011


On 27.10.2011 17:12, Steve Teale wrote:
> How big a deal would it be to add a NULL indicator to the VariantN struct.
>
> I use the term NULL as opposed to null deliberately. Variant already
> provides the hasValue() method, which can serve as a null indicator. But
> in using it as a parameter in database modules, it would be useful to be
> able to give a Variant instance a type, as in v = "", but also to set it
> explicitly as NULL with setNull() or whatever.
>
> Could this fly without breaking existing code?
>
> Steve

Surely Variant.init should do the trick?

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Dmitry Olshansky


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