> You're right about null? being a problem. `Nothing` suggests an option
> type. What about 'nada' or 'nix'?
I'd call it
tinn
this is not nothing
or
tin
this is nothing
[ and tin, apart from the chemical, has a few of its meaning associated
[
That raises to connotation that there can be multiple of something: none, one,
many. Maybe "nothing" really is the best option. After all, "nihil" is just
Latin for "nothing", so I might as well use English.
> none?
"Not available" makes it sound like there something we cannot get a hold of.
Like you have a bag, but the contents of the bag are stuck to it, whereas
"nothing" makes me think of a bag that's actually empty.
Edwin Watkeys wrote:
> In previous work on validated systems in pharma manufacturing mon
Yes, in a way. A measurement is NA if it is not applicable e.g. a color does
not have a mass, whereas NAV is used in contexts where there is a relevant
value but it was not retrieved, was lost, was recorded but is indecipherable,
was recorded but was corrupted, was recorded but was eaten by the
I don't quite follow; having a macro for the byte DSL is simple:
(define-syntax byte-dsl
(syntax-rules ()
((_ byte) (list byte))
((_ count byte) (make-list count byte byte
But this requires every byte specification to be written as `(byte-dsl 0x00)`,
which I want t
In previous work on validated systems in pharma manufacturing monitoring
settings, there’s the concept of not available (“NAV”) for measurements which
is used in contrast to not applicable (“NA”). We never used null/nil but always
one of the above when describing measurements.
Edwin Watkeys; 91
HiPhish writes:
> Not a fan of either, "nada" is not English, and "nix" is a slang term,
> unlikely to be known to foreign speakers (I didn't know about it myself). How
> about "nihil", it's an inter-lingual term and close to "nil" in sound.
none?
Not a fan of either, "nada" is not English, and "nix" is a slang term,
unlikely to be known to foreign speakers (I didn't know about it myself). How
about "nihil", it's an inter-lingual term and close to "nil" in sound.
you wrote:
> You're right about null? being a problem. `Nothing` suggests a
