Re: All hail Neo!
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:57:17 GMT
Message-ID: <Nft2g.64226$VV4.1206335_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
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> In the context of a discussion on actual content, rather than etiquette and
> personalities, I find the distinction between "empty" and "doesn't exist"
> quite interesting.
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:57:17 GMT
Message-ID: <Nft2g.64226$VV4.1206335_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
> "mAsterdam" <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote in message
> news:44498707$0$31637$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl...
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>>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.
It is interesting. It is the difference between dee and dum, between 1
and 0, and between true and false.
In that line of thought, here's an interesting question that Date et al
have posed before to the n-VL folks:
If "exists but empty" is true and "doesn't exist" is false, what is null?