Re: [s-d] Joining.

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake "Peter Cooper Jr.":
> comex wrote:
> > On Tuesday 21 November 2006 3:57, Andy Jones wrote:
> >> On 11/21/06, comex <comexk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > I attempt to join the game with the empty string as my name.
> >> Is that capitalised: "The Empty String"?
> > No.  It's "", i.e. empty. :)
> 
> You know, I somehow had a feeling that *somebody* was going to try
> something like having an empty string for their name. And since nobody and
> nothing else has that as eir name, I suppose it's "uniquely identifying".
> 
> So, , how should we refer to your name? Just leaving a blank there will
> lead to some ambiguity, wouldn't it? How about "", &#955;, or &#949;,
> which are used in Computer Science at least to refer to the empty string?

You could call him \0.
 
-- 
J.
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