David A. Black wrote: > On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, John Carter wrote: > > > What does NoThing contain? Obvious it contains NoThing. > > noThing.shift returns noThing. Is NoThing empty? Yes. > > This is a bit like "a ham sandwich is better than God" :-) [1] < [...] > > David > > [1] I don't where it originated, but the syllogism goes: A ham > sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than God. Ergo... > "Nothing is better than eternal happiness. A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Therefore, a ham sandwich is better than eternal happiness." - R. S. Nickerson. (Reflections on reasoning. Erlbaum, Hillsdale NJ, 1986.)