yeah there is some logic to that. Certainly easier to implement ;)
I guess thinking of business rules - nulls are evil things. Even in a database, they are evil. Many an important report is incorrect cause it is built on a database that allows null values, and people don't understand the ramifications of the SQL statements used.
Nulls in your fact model: just say no !
of course... back in the real world...
Some other thoughts:
Foo(bar < 3) makes no sense if bar is null, so it should be false always in my opinion.
However, Foo(bar != 3) is not so clear for null behaviour.
I agree with SQL. If you also want to catch null you could do
Foo(field > 3 | == null)
cheers
SteveOn 3/15/07, Michael Neale < michael.neale@gmail.com> wrote:http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBRULES-627_______________________________________________
OK, this much is clear:
Foo(field == null) can be true if field is null.
but, what about Foo(field > 3), and field is null? should that be false? what about Foo(field != 3) - should that be true?
in SQL, null will always result in a false condition, unless you explicitly use null.
Thoughts?
Michael.
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