FindLinkedAsBitSet crashes with nil

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 3/4/06 11:29 AM, "Kem Tekinay" <ktekinay at mactechnologies.com> wrote:

Hi Kem,

> I'll file a report later today, but I discovered that the following
> statement will crash my RB program without an exception.
> 
>  link.FindLinkedAsBitSet( nil, tbl1, tbl2 )
> 
> That should just return an empty set or nil. At the very least, it should
> throw an exception.

right
 
> BTW, I discovered this because field.FindContains is returning nil if the
> term is not found. I'm under the impression that it wasn't like this before
> 2.2, but perhaps I'm wrong.

Yes few weeks ago we have make sure that functions which return Set in case
of ZERO found records return always NULL but not empty set.


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