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Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y |
Date: |
Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:48:11 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
> I am not sure there is any benefit to the fact that () is the same as
> (intern "nil").
Indeed, it's actually something I dislike about Elisp (whereas I found
the ()=false to be really handy, just like the 0=NULL= false in C).
I've never found it to be useful, and it can be really inconvenient when
you need to distinguish "a symbol" from "just the nil value".
Stefan
- Re: Better startup error handling, (continued)
- 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, 2012/04/26
- 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 <=
- 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
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Andreas Schwab, 2012/04/28
- Odd formatting (was: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y), Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2012/04/29
- Re: Odd formatting, Steinar Bang, 2012/04/30
- Re: Odd formatting, Antoine Levitt, 2012/04/30