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Sun, 16 Jul 2017 18:35:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zony ([45.2.7.65]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id l203sm5221525itl.26.2017.07.16.18.35.45 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Sun, 16 Jul 2017 18:35:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8de43dfa-e463-4060-9562-0158eb256b3a@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 5 Sep 2016 14:03:17 -0700 (PDT)") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:134648 Archived-At: tags 24369 notabug close 24369 quit Drew Adams writes: >> > > =E2=80=A2 =E2=80=98nil=E2=80=99, meaning there is no prefix argu= ment. Its numeric value >> > > is 1, >> > >> > That's the point: Value of nil is 1 >>=20 >> 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.