Re: database driver: no more rows

In a message dated 10/22/2003 6:00:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, andi@zend.com writes: At 11:49 PM 10/22/2003 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >>Err .. I don't agree. >>Null means no data >>False means error. > >Maybe historically (PHP-wise) it does. >But the way I see it, every fetch() can 'fail' for two reasons: an >expected well-defined reason (eof), and an unexpected undefined reason >(error). Labelling the well-defined reason as 'false' and the undefined >reason as 'null' is really quite defendable. This isn't something I'd like to see changed. I actually think there are probably lots of people who do !== false and we could screw up a lot of scripts. I see the advantage of being able to tell the difference but I think it's not big enough to change it now. Andi Well, this would be my first time contributing to any discussion on this list since I joined, but I have a question. It was suggested that this be implemented in PHP 5.0.0. Isn't PHP 5 so much different than PHP 4 that scripts would have to be somewhat rewritten for it anyway? (I'm not saying that PHP 5 is totally different, just different enough.) I don't think I've had any experince with those functions returning FALSE for me, but I think it's more logical that they differentiate between the FALSE and the NULL for the reasons stated above. Gordon Hemsley