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Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y
From: |
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:16:41 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> I can believe that (it's often handy to use "nil-in-nil-out" when
> composing functions which may return nil). But there's also the risk
> that you hide real errors, leading to weird behaviors that are more
> difficult to track down.
I see allowing more nil values in string-ey functions as a very Lisp-ey
thing to do.
I'm really really happy that Emacs Lisp isn't Scheme-like. Stuff like
(assq 'foo bar) ⇒ #f
would just drive me totally batty.
Battier.
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- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, (continued)
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Nix, 2012/04/27
- Better startup error handling (was: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y), Stefan Monnier, 2012/04/27
- Re: Better startup error handling, Nix, 2012/04/28
- Re: Better startup error handling, Stefan Monnier, 2012/04/28
- Re: Better startup error handling, David Engster, 2012/04/28
- RE: Better startup error handling, Drew Adams, 2012/04/28
- Re: Better startup error handling, Stefan Monnier, 2012/04/28
- Re: Better startup error handling, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2012/04/28
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Richard Stallman, 2012/04/27
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Stefan Monnier, 2012/04/26
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y,
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <=
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Richard Stallman, 2012/04/27
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Eli Barzilay, 2012/04/28
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Richard Stallman, 2012/04/28
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Stefan Monnier, 2012/04/28
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Eli Barzilay, 2012/04/28
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Steve Yegge, 2012/04/27
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/04/27
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Steve Yegge, 2012/04/27
- RE: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Drew Adams, 2012/04/27
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Steve Yegge, 2012/04/28