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Re: (copy-marker nil)


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: (copy-marker nil)
Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 18:06:52 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> Well, zero here is a special case.

No.  You can try it with many other "out of bounds" integers.

> But copying a marker out of nil seems not logically.

It works just as well as (move-marker m nil) and for the same reasons.
A marker *can* point to "nothing" and it's an important property.


        Stefan




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