> And when I tried computer scientists, I got more predictable results, > but still not all the same. In particular, I got a (minority) response > that "" is not a text and thus doesn't start anything, and that asking > if "" occurs in a string is meaningless as well, because you can't > construct the text with pieces of nothing, not even with infinitely > many of them. or (?)... A non-trivial string contains something. Therefore saying it contains nothing can't be true. If it doesn't contain "nothing" it can't begin with it either. Les BrownReceived on Thursday, 3 April 2008 13:09:58 GMT
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