On Sat, 1 Apr 2006, Berger, Daniel wrote:

> Think 'NULL' in databases, where 'NULL' is may not mean true or false,
> but unknown.  At the moment, NULL maps to nil, which is false.

yup.  good example.

>> i've brought this up once or twice before - maybe we should
>> just put together a patch and send to ruby-core?
>
> It's been proposed and rejected by Matz once already.

i seem to recall this... link?  wonder why he rejected...

cheers.

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