[jira] Commented: (PIG-385) Should support 'null' as a constant

["David Ciemiewicz (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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David Ciemiewicz commented on PIG-385:
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I definitely have use for null or NULL as a constant.  It's especially important for binconditionals like in the example.  Any way to get this prioritized sooner rather than later?  It use this all the time in my Pig 1.4 scripts only I use '' (empty string) as the proxy today.

> Should support 'null' as a constant
> -----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PIG-385
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-385
>             Project: Pig
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: impl
>    Affects Versions: types_branch
>            Reporter: Alan Gates
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: types_branch
>
>
> It would be nice to be able to do things like:
> B = foreach A generate $0 > 0 ? $0 : null;
> but right now null is not allowed as a constant.  This null constant should be allowed anywhere an expression would be, and should be castable (that is (int)null).

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