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My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015)
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Re: My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015)
#12I'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…
Here's an example where it creeps in: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-33644
Re: My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015)
#13I'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…
Javascript lets you do it if you use the equality (==) instead of the identity (===).. i think.
Re: My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015)
#14I 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...
There was a notable incident where Facebook rejected Caterina Fake.
Re: My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015)
#15I'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.
Re: My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015)
#16what languages don't distinguish between literal null and a string with content "null". More importantly, who the fuck used such monstrosities?
Old software that makes bad SQL queries with string concatenation.
Re: My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015)
#17I'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 probably old DB software, the interactions between, and not the language itself.
Re: My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015)
#18I'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…
Javascript lets you do it if you use the equality (==) instead of the identity (===).. i think.
Javascript lets you do anything wrong if you use == and not === though, I'm pretty sure the machine apocalypse is going to happen because someone types == instead of === at this point.
Re: My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015)
#19I'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…
Javascript lets you do it if you use the equality (==) instead of the identity (===).. i think.
Just tested (in the node CLI console) and that doesn't seem to be the case.
Edit: It's true in PHP though. :-/
Re: My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015)
#20I'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…
Here's an example where it creeps in: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-33644
OK, that's a good one.
Is this ActionScript that's doing the weird xml tag interpolation?
I stand corrected, this is definitely possible. Still, I bet this person's real problems stem from explicit coding.