[fricas-devel] Re: VOID and NONE

2009-10-05 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Bill Page bill.p...@newsynthesis.org writes: [...] | 'None' on the other hand is called a domain without any values but | it is typically used in situations where one apparently needs to | temporarily avoid (duck?) the type checking, e.g. in the domain 'Any', | but also in several other places

[fricas-devel] Re: VOID and NONE

2009-10-05 Thread Waldek Hebisch
Bill Page wrote: We seldom seem to make much progress with foundational issues in Axiom (where I write Axiom in this email, it should be understood that I am also referring to FriCAS and OpenAxiom) but I thought I would like to bring up a subject that has bother me a little and ask for

[fricas-devel] Re: VOID and NONE

2009-10-05 Thread Bill Page
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Waldek Hebisch wrote: Bill Page wrote: ... Although it is currently a stand alone domain, 'Void' could be easily made to satisfy 'SetCategory' by providing a simple '=' operation. Since by definition 'Void' has only a single canonical value we can simply

[fricas-devel] Re: VOID and NONE

2009-10-05 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
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