Re: Elisp string function question

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

>> I just tried and this:
>>
>> (string-empty-p nil) returns nil. But nil is not an
>> non-empty string.
>
> nil is a lot of things, it is the boolean false, it is
> a variable with a value that isn't ready to be used, it is
> an empty list, and apparently and empty string as well:
>
>   (string= "" nil)
>
> Thanks for mentioning `string-empty-p' BTW, didn't know of
> that, now I can remove my own `empty-string-p' :P
>
> (which shows the same bahavior BTW)

No, it doesn't, why did I ever remove it? I thought it was the
same as this but it wasn't, (string-empty-p nil) should be
t according to the way I've been using it! Christ, no wonder
nothing works all of a sudden.

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