Re: CfC: The Media Capture API FPWD

On Sep 2, 2010, at 13:37 , Ilkka Oksanen wrote:
>> 4. I never understood the difference between nullable and optional. 
>> In Contacts everything that is optional is also nullable. I don't
>> see why not (?)
> 
> I might be wrong but isn't the difference that JavaScript function calls
> example(1, 2) and example(1) are legal and example(1, null) is not if the
> second integer parameter is optional but not nullable. Is there then any
> benefit to allow the null case?  I'm fine to align Capture API with
> Contacts if it is more complex than this.

Right. The distinction can be useful when you don't want to pass a given parameter but do want to pass the one after it. In that case you need null: foo.bar(1, null, 2). But it's true that it's confusing and messy in general.

It has a stronger impact on Java, but I don't believe anyone cares that much.

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