Re: All hail Neo!

From: David Cressey <dcressey_at_verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:16:41 GMT
Message-ID: <tNr2g.1864$Ze.1251@trndny06>

"mAsterdam" <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote in message news:44498707$0$31637$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl...

> Which? You mean between "I don't have a killfile" and "my killfile is
> empty"? HAHAHAHAHA

In the context of a discussion on actual content, rather than etiquette and personalities, I find the distinction between "empty" and "doesn't exist" quite interesting.

For some time now, I've been designing a data representation scheme around what I'll call "smart datablocks". I found it very useful to have different representations for a "null block", meaning the absence of a block where one was expected, and an "empty block", meaning an ordinary data block, but one whose payload is empty. Received on Sat Apr 22 2006 - 10:16:41 CDT