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I think we are going to have to agree to disagree here.
*I* take {Empty} (or N/A) to mean no information is available, so
if I have 3 boxes (30+50+20) and "some other container that may or may not
contain some indeterminate number of apples", i *DON'T* know how many I
have.
I will admit that, I *DO* know I have at least 100 items of fruit (apples or
maybe oranges), and can make some further assumptions based on that, but that
is what they are, assumptions.
*I* would much rather have AmiBroker say "you haven't told me what to assume
here, so I'm not going to assume anything", so I can put the appropriate Nz()
or IIf() in.
That way not only does AmiBroker know what I'm assuming, *I* know what I'm
assuming, because I've had to think about it.
Nigel (who assumes he knows what he's talking about)
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:02 pm, DIMITRIS TSOKAKIS wrote:
> {empty} simply means N/A, non available. From some point of view it
> is equivalent to "not defined" and, consequently, any addition to a
> not defined quantity will be N/A too, ie {empty}.
> On the other side, the neutral element of the addition is 0 and one
> could expect X+{empty}=X, since X is not empty, it exists and it is
> irrational to be disappeared.
> Two different points and some priorities in addition concept...
> If you have 4 boxes and you add the apples, you would probably say
> 30+50+20+0 if the last box was empty. Would you say "I can not sum
> the oranges, because the last box is empty" ? Probably not...
> The common sense, IMO, would count 100 oranges.
> DT
>
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