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> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 17:53:38 +0200
> 
> > It was just to test if empty; but now empty is better served with asking
> > just for one file and testing for null; and I was also thinking what to
> > do with 0 count if asked for after I sent patch yesterday; it seemed
> > like a bit more useful then just return nil early.
> >
> > I can send tomorrow one that just returns nil and exits.
> 
> Let's wait what Eli prefers.

I think 0 doesn't make much sense, so we might as well not support
that at all.