Sunday, 19 July 2009

What is NULL?

Just saw this in an explanation of NULL in a computer reference:

A variable is said to be null when its value is invalid or doesn't bear any significant or recognizable value.

Isn't that the same as saying "out of context". When something is without context or out of context then it is NULL. Take a fish and set it out of water and it becomes NULL.

Links with the old observation that meaning derives from context.

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US displaying its Imperialist credentials... yet again

Wanted to know the pattern of UN votes over Venezuela and then got into seeing if ChatGPT could see the obvious pattern of Imperialism here....