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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
User-agent: 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



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