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Fun way to look at it. In Common Lisp, NULL is not a number. But in Assembly language, it absolutely is. Is "no" a number? As in "I have no apples." It is stra

by ksaj 3y ago

Fun way to look at it. In Common Lisp, NULL is not a number. But in Assembly language, it absolutely is. Is "no" a number? As in "I have no apples." It is strange that we can't say "I have yes apples" otherwise.

thaumasiotes 3y ago
> It is strange that we can't say "I have yes apples" otherwise. You do see ungrammatical "yes" applied sometimes when people are stumped as to how to indicate the opposite of a negative sentence. It is not strange in general that certain things are, for no apparent reason, impossible to say. That occurs in every language. English modal auxiliaries, for example, do not have non-finite forms, so in many sentences it is mandatory to replace modal can with lexical to be able [to...]