From: Gavri Savio Fernandez <Gavri_F@...>
Date: 2004-05-19T22:54:13+09:00
Subject: Re: 0 is a Number, too! (was: Zero is true ... whoda thunk?)

> From: Dave Burt [mailto:burtdav@hotmail.com]
> Subject: 0 is a Number, too! (was: Zero is true ... whoda thunk?)

 
> Equal rights for Numbers: 0 is a Number, too!
> 
> Sure, Numbers are Comparable. Sure, 0 might be less than some 
> other Numbers,
> but it's greater than some Numbers, too.
> 
> No Number should be considered false. No Number deserves to 
> be considered
> false.
> 
> No Number has the negativity and emptiness that nil and false 
> exude. All
> Numbers are on if's guest list[1].
> 
> Granted, in the past it's true that 0 had no bits set. It 
> took on the roles
> of false and even nil even when the need was there.
> 
> Give it credit for that! Respect, too, that all Numbers, yes, 
> even 0, have
> an id now.
> 
> I dream of the day programmers esteem 0 as highly as mathematicians.
> 
> Respect all Numbers equally. Join the fight for equal rights for 0.
> 
> honk if 0

This post is more convincing than all the other posts combined!! :)
Really. 

It probably convinced a lot of the other posters too :)

gavri