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Re: All hail Neo!

From: David Cressey <dcressey_at_verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:16:41 GMT
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"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 - 17:16:41 CEST












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