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@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>

David Cressey wrote:

> "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.

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? Received on Sat Apr 22 2006 - 11:57:17 CDT