Réf. : Re: [attr|=""] Selector

> 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 Brown

Received on Thursday, 3 April 2008 13:09:58 UTC