Re: RFC 263 (v1) Add null() keyword and fundamental data type

[Tom Christiansen]

>> In Perl, this is the null string:    ""
>> In Perl, this is the null character: "\0"
>> In Perl, this is the null list:      ()

>In RFC 263, this is the null:  null

>That's a different word for a different concept.  No conflict, if you
>learn the way the RFC speaks.

Wrong.  Just plain wrong.

>> It's a shame you don't like it, but this is the way we speak.

>What's this we and you business?  I'm a perl user too.

Who can't speak.

>> If you wish to make sense of the documentation, you must learn
>> its language.

>The documentation isn't all that consistent about everything, either.
>Perhaps you, personally, are more so, and if so, perhaps you should help
>rewrite the documentation to make it as perfectly consistent as yourself.

Thank you very much, but I just did that.  It's called Camel-3.

>I allowed that you might want to call it the null string, and I'm allowed
>to read "null string" and think "empty string", and I'm just as right as
>you are.  You must not have a cohesive argument to make, if you resort to
>insults in an attempt to make points.

You haven't heard insults.  Here are insults: you are a stupid idiot.
And I am incredibly glad that within hours, I'm about to spend three solid 
weeks afraid from such a fucked up blathering fool.

--tom