OT: Counterquestion - is Oracle a He or a She - or an It or a hermaphrodite

In Hellenic (Greek/Western) cultural history, the Oracles of Apollo at Delphi are arguably the preeminent reference of "Oracle."

Those were alleged virgin females sitting in a contraption that looked sort of like a lifeguard chair in a temple built over a fissure whence spewed a natural gaseous hallucinogenic cocktail. Thus dosed, the "Oracle of Delphi" tended to give 60's hippie/yippie style answers (but in Greek, I suppose) to lightly dosed supplicants.

So I'm thinkin' Oracle is a high flyin' she, which partly explains why she thinks a zero length string is a null value but simultaneously understands that a numeric zero is not a null.

Regards,

mwf

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Counterquestion - is Oracle a He or a She - or an It or a hermaphrodite

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