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* cl-macs: case with a nil value
@ 2003-08-21 15:52 Glenn Morris
  2003-08-21 16:16 ` Jesper Harder
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2003-08-21 15:52 UTC (permalink / raw)



(case nil
  (nil "nil")
  (t "t"))

-> "t"

(case nil
  ((nil) "nil")
  (t "t"))

-> "nil"

Does that seem weird to anyone else? Am I misunderstanding the magic
nature of "nil" (it's a list, it's an atom, it slices, it dices, ...)
again?

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* Re: cl-macs: case with a nil value
  2003-08-21 15:52 cl-macs: case with a nil value Glenn Morris
@ 2003-08-21 16:16 ` Jesper Harder
  2003-08-21 16:25   ` Glenn Morris
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jesper Harder @ 2003-08-21 16:16 UTC (permalink / raw)


Glenn Morris <gmorris+news@ast.cam.ac.uk> writes:

> (case nil
>   (nil "nil")
>   (t "t"))
>
> -> "t"
>
> (case nil
>   ((nil) "nil")
>   (t "t"))
>
> -> "nil"
>
> Does that seem weird to anyone else?

Not to me.  It works as advertised in <info://cl/Conditionals>

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* Re: cl-macs: case with a nil value
  2003-08-21 16:16 ` Jesper Harder
@ 2003-08-21 16:25   ` Glenn Morris
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Morris @ 2003-08-21 16:25 UTC (permalink / raw)


Jesper Harder wrote:

> Not to me.  It works as advertised in <info://cl/Conditionals>

Oh foobar...

A thousand apologies for posting without reading the info page.

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