From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2006-03-05T03:22:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Kirbybase Hacks NilClass

On 3/4/06, Jamey Cribbs <jcribbs@twmi.rr.com> wrote:

> What has been kicked around when this question has come up before is for
> me to create something like a NULL class and use this to designate a
> null value in the database, instead of using nil.  This would take care
> of having to override NilClass#method_missing.  It would bring up a few
> other problems, namely, what if someone wants to store the string value
> NULL in a field.  But I imagine these could be overcome.

I was discussing this with one of the guys from new_haven.rb, Matthew Desmarais
when we were heading down to NYC.rb

A NULL Class was the best thing we came up with too... even though
this might create some issues within KirbyBase that will need to be
worked around, it'd make this great piece of software much less scary
to people who might like to use it.