NULL Variants?

[Nate Nielsen]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> I roughly agree with Colin's reply; but then, I've been kicking and
> screaming all the way from "we just have a fixed set of simple types" to
> today's recursive type system...
> 
> I don't want to be blocking something everyone else thinks is a good
> idea but I do think it might be better to just punt this issue,
> especially for 1.0.

As noted in my reply to Colin, that would be great, especially for
people who come in from other IPC backgrounds. But as long as there are
work arounds (like Colin's) there's no rush.

Cheers,
Nate