Re: [Swig-user] returning empty string from perl

[Jason S. <jas...@gm...>]

hey,

On 5/1/06, Daniel Moore <dx...@zo...> wrote:

>     Revision 1.4: Wed Dec 7 07:39:44 2005 UTC (4 months, 3 weeks ago)
> by marcelomatus
>     return PL_sv_undef for empty strings, as in the old perl library
>
> Which makes it pretty clear this behaviour is intentional. But why?

hmmmm... good question. To me it makes more sense to go with the
default perl expectations - empty string and undef are very different.

Marcelo, do you remember why this was changed?

Cheers, jas.