[GRASS5] Opinion wanted - null data

[Justin Hickey]

Forwarded to the developers list.

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Justin Hickey wrote:
> As you know, I have been looking at the issue of removing the feature 
> of "0 is no data", and the situation is currently at a point where
> I'm not sure what is the best thing to do.

Justin,

  I'll vote again to have zero represent data and no data (or unknown
values) be represented by NULL.

> 2. Make the change and prolong the release by the amount of time for 
>    me to get back on-line and for coding and testing
>
> 3. Another developer volunteers to make the changes and the release 
>    is delayed for only a minimum amount of time (coding and testing)

  Either, or.

Good luck with the move,

Rich

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