note moritz <p>IMHO the only sane way to deal with NULL/undef values is not to allow them by default, and if they are present, force explicit handling of them.</p> <p>Unfortunately the only language I know that gets this right is Haskell (which has its own share of problem). <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-616540"> [http://perl6.org/|Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed] </div></div> 1019806 1019806