Only worry I would have would be about performance.

Totally agree with those sentiments - seldom (bordering on never) have i worked in a job where short-term career path to the top wasn't put in front of everything else....

Eugene, that's a good collection of function you have - very useful.  I suppose, in retrospect, its always the holidays that mess things up.  Now, I'm not at all suggesting...

I'll admit that I haven't read all the posts or even the article itself to any degree but I just thought, when I saw the heading, what I always think...

My take as a code mostly.

The reason coders translate nulls into something more meaningful in most cases is not because we don't like nulls but that the languages we use...