Checking if a string is null

Bruno Medeiros brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail
Sun Jul 29 04:45:13 PDT 2007


Manfred Nowak wrote:
> Bruno Medeiros wrote
> 
>> (What made you do that in the first place?)
> 
> Because arrays should approximately form a mathematical Kleene Algebra 
> at the semantical level. These have two different neutral elements 0 
> and 1, so that concatenation and 1 are required to form a monoid.
> 
> 

I dont' get it, in D's arrays, what are the neutral elements 0 and 1? A 
zero length, and a one-length array, respectively? Or something else? 
And how can there be two different neutral elements?


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