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slightly off topic, but it's always seemed weird to me that there is no english word for "don't care", it's a really awkward phrasing. - In boolean logic, we ha
by jordanthoms 14y ago
slightly off topic, but it's always seemed weird to me that there is no english word for "don't care", it's a really awkward phrasing. - In boolean logic, we have true, false, and then no word for when it can be either.
- Daniel_Newby 14y agoIndeterminate.
- drifkin 14y ago"Indeterminate" seems more like "don't know" instead of "don't care"
- Daniel_Newby 14y agoGood point. I was thinking of things whose state is not proper or measurable. "Ignored" perhaps?
- drifkin 14y agoDo other languages have a word for this?
- Finbarr 14y agoHow about indifferent?
- njharman 14y agofoo
- Someone 14y agoSQL has NULL. Digital electronics has 0, 1 and x. Java/C# have Boolean/bool?, with values true, false, and null. English has apathetic, neutral, unbiased, nonpartisan.
- jordanthoms 14y agoTo me NULL means more that there is no value, not that there is a value, but I don't care what it is.