Post #2741004
2026-05-13 16:16 UTC
The distinction between an empty list and a list containing only an empty string is a bit like this advanced math scenario https://mathoverflow.net/a/46073
I suppose it only works in the setting where you're implicitly concatenating the strings, "" being the identity of that operation. I wish I knew more about this, but the obvious point is that a list of empty strings (how long?) contains more information than one empty string.
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@theohonohan@graphics.social 2026-05-13 22:46
It's a lot less of an "interesting vacuous entity" when you look at it as Set, which of course has two values