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I have seen apps that choke on much more common names. Like O'Brian. This post is a classic on various name issues: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
Dutch names (two or three word surnames with spaces) confuse all sorts of systems/people.
I've been programming for over a quarter century, and I feel pretty confident that I've never written anything that could confuse 'null' with NULL. I can't even think of a language that would let you easily do this. If web forms aren't accepting NULL, then somebody probably specifically programmed the word 'null' into a filter of disallowed entries. Probably to stop clerks from entering the word 'null' to mean empty…
It's one of the reasons I wrote a pared down 'dumb' YAML parser that assumes scalar values are strings unless directed otherwise: https://github.com/crdoconnor/strictyaml
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Javascript lets you do it if you use the equality (==) instead of the identity (===).. i think.
Nope. Not even JavaScript screws this one up. You've got to be doing something stupid with strings to get tripped up by "Null".
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Javascript lets you do it if you use the equality (==) instead of the identity (===).. i think.
Nope. Not even JavaScript screws this one up. You've got to be doing something stupid with strings to get tripped up by "Null".
I've been programming for over a quarter century, and I feel pretty confident that I've never written anything that could confuse 'null' with NULL. I can't even think of a language that would let you easily do this. If web forms aren't accepting NULL, then somebody probably specifically programmed the word 'null' into a filter of disallowed entries. Probably to stop clerks from entering the word 'null' to mean empty…
I can only see that happen if eval was ever used.
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Oh, let me tell you about the saga of Mr Curl trying to update his billing information at a company I used to work for...
I don't understand. Are you agreeing with me or suggesting a string with the contents "curl" will somehow cause the server to execute the curl command?
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Tangentially related (rule 9); my girlfriend's surname contains an 'é'. I have yet to see a year go by without receiving mail having 'é' on the address label where the é should be. Explanation: echo "é" | iconv -t utf8 -f iso8859-15 We're Dutch, and the é is part of our language, and even part of the legacy character encoding standard everyone used before Unicode's widespread adoption. This is just a matter of code…
I'm French and I see this all the time, even Outlook, given the right conditions, will gives you this in the default folders, Inbox in French is "Boite de réception".
If you happen to be using Windows configured in a foreign language the first time you start Outlook, your inbox, sent mail, etc, folders are named according to that language, and will never change, and you'll have to live with non-standard names for the folders.
At least its teaches you how to configure folders manually in most email clients.