Re: Fwd: Copy out wording

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 13:31, Andrew Dunstan<andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
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> Magnus Hagander wrote:
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>> Oh, hang on, "the NULL string" refers to the copy parameter? Not a
>> part of the data? I read it as "a string being NULL". Maybe something
>> like "the value of the NULL string parameter" to be overly clear for
>> people like me? :-)
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> We could change:
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>   A NULL is output as the NULL string and is not quoted, while a data value
>   matching the NULL string is quoted.
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> to
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>   A NULL is output as the NULL parameter and is not quoted, while a non-NULL
> data value whose text representation
>   matches the NULL parameter is quoted.
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> or something similar. Would that be better?

Yes, much better IMO.

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