On Friday, 18 October 2013 at 19:59:26 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
...because it eliminates an unnecessary distinction between an empty sequence and a non-existent sequence (which then leads to similar issues one encounters with null pointers).
That just seems silly. Surely we all recognize that there's a difference between the empty set and having no set at all, and that it's valuable to be able to distinguish between the two. The empty set is still a set, while nothing is... nothing.
