Re: [s-d] Joining.

[shadowfirebird@xxxxxxxxx]

Well, made the decision to call himself.  I think e should just have
to live with the consequences.  He can always change his name from to
something else.

Personally I think it shows has an under-developed sense of
self-worth.  But who am I to talk?

Ta,
Optional.


On 11/21/06, Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
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