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"Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote in message
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> "Adrian Kubala" <adrian_at_sixfingeredman.net> wrote in message
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> > These aren't types you're talking about, according to standard CS
> > definitions. A type has to have values.
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> "Bottom" (sometimes written _|_) is a type that has no values.
Indeed. One must always remember an empty set is still a set. "Bottom" has a set of values and a set of operations. Received on Thu Jan 15 2004 - 23:18:05 CST
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