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by The_rationalist 2566 days ago
What does invalid means? Could you exemplify?
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invalid might handle similar cases to http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/mu.html
Presumably its like an error value being returned from a programming function?
Yep. I use INVALID in many different scenarios. One type of the scenarios is like encountering someone saying "the uppercase is having a daydream" in a serious discussion and no one really knows what "uppercase" means here. The usual usage would be more subtle. Maybe NONSENSE would be a better name.