Re: Compatibility with OSX

[Ludovic Marcotte]

> Also, if you, by accident, set a nil value you program crashes.
> Personally I think a GUI library should not do this.  
> nil is perfectly fine and GNUstep should try to cope with it
> as gracefully as it can.  I rather have an empty field
> than a crash.

The problem is that your program will crash under OS-X. 

So, when you'll port your app to OS-X (if you do), you'll end up trying 
to find where your do your setValue: nil and you'll fix that in your 
code to prevent this. That's awkward because you could have seen that 
problem right away under GNUstep. 

We want OS-X compatibility and this change is to make porting your app 
easier to OS-X.

Ludo

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