[saga-rg] Re: ISSUE 131

[Andre Merzky]

Hi Graeme, Pascal, 

forgot CC to list 

- A.


Quoting [Andre Merzky] (May 08 2006):
> 
> I checked all usages of NULL in the spec, and all but two
> can be safely removed, and replaced by empty strings etc.  
> 
> The two places are: 
> 
>   1) wait on a stream_server returns a stream if
>      successfull, and NULL otherwise.  I don't see any 
>      nice way to get rid of that NULL - I think that 
>      should be dealt with in the language bindings.
> 
>   2) remove_callback on a metric returns the callback
>      removed.  If that cb was removed earlier (or removed
>      itself after execution), the method returns NULL.
>      Same here I think: check in the language bindings.
> 
> Does that sound ok?
> 
> Cheers, Andre.
> 
> 
> Quoting [Andre Merzky] (Apr 27 2006):
> > Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:52:23 +0200
> > From: Andre Merzky <andre at merzky.net>
> > To: G.E.POUND at soton.ac.uk
> > Cc: Andre Merzky <andre at merzky.net>
> > Subject: Re: ISSUE 131
> > 
> > Ah, ok - I retract the Java argument then :-)
> > 
> > Thanks, Andre.
> > 
> > 
> > Quoting [G.E.POUND at soton.ac.uk] (Apr 27 2006):
> > > 
> > > Andre
> > > 
> > > 'null' is a valid value in Java (in most instances). It is not a valid value
> > > in FORTRAN.
> > > 
> > > Graeme
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Quoting Andre Merzky <andre at merzky.net>:
> > > 
> > > > Quoting [Andre Merzky] (Apr 20 2006):
> > > > >
> > > > >  131) clearify what a NULL string/object is we sometimes return
> > > > >       - OPEN, URGENT
> > > > >
> > > > > iObvious again.  Opinions?  Should that even go into the
> > > > > API spec, or into the language bindings?  What should we say
> > > > > in the spec?
> > > >
> > > > No opinion.
> > > >
> > > > I think NULL does not make sense for Java and Fortran (Is
> > > > that true?) so I guess it should stay out of the general
> > > > spec.
> > > >
> > > > I changed all occurences to either throw, or empty string
> > > > returns etc.  There are only a couple of places where we
> > > > used NULL anyway.
> > > >
> > > > > Volonteers?
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers, Andre
> > > >
> > > > Cheers, Andre.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > "So much time, so little to do..."  -- Garfield
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