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Re: [ProgSoc] Programming! Code!



On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 19:17 +1000, John Elliot wrote:

> On Thursday 19 October 2006 17:56, Roland Turner wrote:
> > (If you've not read Hofstadter, then you really, really should.)
> 
> I told you already that I'm up to page 142.

Oh, apologies.

My copy is no longer in my possession. I loaned it to someone years ago
and am no longer entirely sure who has it, nor even which country it's
in. Has the Tortoise started breaking Achilles' record players yet?

> My reference to 'strange loops' is from GEB.

OIC. My primary association was with it's use in intelligence as
proposed by Ian Fleming. (Some quick googling suggests that it was
actually proposed not by Fleming but by RAW in the Schroedinger's Cat
trilogy, which I read an awfully long time ago.)

> You may not be aware, but in C# there are two types of 'types'. 
> ValueType and Object. In C# the keyword 'bool' is isomorphic to 
> System.Boolean in the CLR's (Common Language Runtime) BCL (Base Class 
> Library).
> 
> Thus, bool not(bool x) and Boolean not(Boolean x) are semantically 
> identical.

Egads, there are no non-null value types?

- Raz


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