Re: Repost issue: missing accessors same as NILs?

Your note [1] left out one alternative -- "no value is known," or
unspecified.  For example, in C:
         extern char *cstr;
         char *p = (char*)malloc(1 + strlen(cstr) + 1);
         strcpy(&p[1], cstr);
The value of p[0] is indeterminate/unspecified, not necessarily NULL and
not guaranteed to have a default value.

This is (surprise) just like sparse arrays. :)

Did you omit that option on purpose?
         /r$

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2002Jan/0057.html




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