Jeff Moden (3/30/2015)
I understand that many languages and products treat NULLs differently and that we have to jump whatever hoop is held up for us in that area but I'll stand by the definition of NULL not being equal to Nothing. The fact that some languages define otherwise won't change that for me but I'm flexible enough to use whatever hoop is presented. 😛
I think maybe someone was making the observation that some languages use the reserved word NOTHING to mean pretty much what the reserved word NULL means in SQL. I can remember NILL being used for that too, but can't remember which language[s?] that was in (NILL usually meant "the invalid pointer" in the bad old days when we had pointers in our languages instead of references).
Tom