spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: CFI

[Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Dan Waldron,


> Indeterminate values are neither prohibited nor regulated.  Therefore it
> is up to us to come to some decision how they shall be dealt with.  The
> simplest means of dealing with an undefined value is to have the answer of
> any query made of it be "no", and this is the principle I suggest we apply
> here.  I do not suggest that we apply this principle indiscriminately, for
> example if the rules were to ask "is the value of x indeterminate?" it
> would be foolish to return an answer of "no" due to precedent if x were
> indeterminate.  However, in present circumstances the principle is quite
> simple to apply.

So basically, what you're saying is, let's decide that indeterminate values
are whatever we want them to be. I ask 'Is my score not equal to 92?'; we
then decide whether or not to apply the principle of 'no' to it. I ask 'Is
my score 92?'; we decide again what the answer is, based on whatever we feel
like thinking.

Why not just say 'the answer to any query is whatever we want it to be'?

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Wonko