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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Recursion, Yo
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:50:45 +0100
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"Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> writes:

> On 4/14/2024 3:44 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 Apr 2024 11:17:36 +0100, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> 
>>> In Algol 68, the mode (AKA type) "void" is,
>>> conceptually, a collection of values like any other.
>> It has only a single value, EMPTY. Therefore, the number of bits required
>> to store a VOID value is ... zero.
>
> How to denote EMPTY?

Algol 68 has no denotation for the empty value.

-- 
Ben.