The philosophy of Nothing

[Dimitris Andreou]

But you *do* understand that the empty set is a subset of any other set, right?

2009/11/29 Paul Benedict <pbenedict at apache.org>:
> Yes, I do have it flipped around. Thank you. I shouldn't enjoy making
> big blunders in public so much. :-)
>
> So let me ask the opposite:
> How can nothing be a type of something?
>
> Paul
>
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot
> <reinier at zwitserloot.com> wrote:
>> You've got it flipped around.
>> Nothing is a subtype of Object. (and of String, and of Number, and of
>> Integer, etc).
>> --Reinier Zwitserloot
>