From: "Alexandre Oberlin" <email_via_web@migo.info>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is it not possible to use "nil" any more in init files ?
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 15:39:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.xpxsclcofjdmwo@tournesol> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.14663.1417011535.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Hello,
On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 15:18:42 +0100, Phillip Lord
<phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk> wrote:
> Bottom line is that nil in lisp is overloaded. In this case,
> it means both "explicit false" and "no argument supplied".
>
> Life is a compromise, nil double so.
I never had a single nil-related problem in various Lisp’s I have been
using ... until now.
Alexandre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-26 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-22 12:57 Why is it not possible to use "nil" any more in init files ? Alexandre Oberlin
2014-11-22 14:37 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.14325.1416667223.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-25 13:19 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2014-11-25 13:50 ` Phillip Lord
2014-11-25 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.14534.1416923435.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-25 15:07 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2014-11-26 14:15 ` Phillip Lord
[not found] ` <mailman.14661.1417011326.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-26 20:45 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2014-11-27 3:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-20 1:03 ` WJ
2015-01-21 6:50 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <mailman.14536.1416925359.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-25 16:10 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2014-11-26 14:18 ` Phillip Lord
[not found] ` <mailman.14663.1417011535.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-26 14:39 ` Alexandre Oberlin [this message]
2014-11-26 21:12 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2015-01-19 10:31 ` WJ
2015-01-19 14:38 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.18143.1421678302.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-01-19 14:56 ` Rusi
2014-11-25 15:07 ` Emacs User
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