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bug#24369: Docu of prefix-numeric-value
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bug#24369: Docu of prefix-numeric-value |
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Sun, 16 Jul 2017 21:37:20 -0400 |
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tags 24369 notabug
close 24369
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Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> > > • ‘nil’, meaning there is no prefix argument. Its numeric value
>> > > is 1,
>> >
>> > That's the point: Value of nil is 1
>>
>> No, the _numeric_ value of nil is 1. IOW, nil, when interpreted
>> as a number, is 1. An entirely different story.
>
> Exactly. The value of `(prefix-numeric-value nil)' is 1.
>
> That's what "numeric value of" the prefix argument means.
> It is also what the shorter expression "the numeric prefix
> argument" means.
>
> The fact that the value of some function applied to nil
> is 1 does not mean that the value of nil is 1.
I think there is nothing more to be done here, so I'm closing the bug.
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