From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: What does the coding system nil mean?
Date: 26 Jan 2004 19:26:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ud696hb92.fsf@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m31xpmlosp.fsf@defun.localdomain> (message from Jesper Harder on Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:20:22 +0100)
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:20:22 +0100
> >
> > It's a coding system in the sense that every primitive that accepts
> > a coding system symbol also accepts nil.
>
> But it's not transparent, i.e. some functions behave differently if
> you use nil rather than a real coding system.
That's true, but what I said is still true as well.
> > IMHO, it's no more odd than this:
> >
> > M-: (listp nil) RET => t
>
> I would find it a lot more odd if (listp ()) did not return t -- nil
> is the empty list, after all.
No, nil is also a symbol.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-26 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-24 22:13 What does the coding system nil mean? Jesper Harder
2004-01-25 6:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1298.1075010993.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-25 21:09 ` Jesper Harder
2004-01-26 6:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1343.1075097239.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-26 15:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-01-26 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-27 15:22 ` Oliver Scholz
2004-01-27 16:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-01-26 15:20 ` Jesper Harder
2004-01-26 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2004-01-27 14:44 ` Oliver Scholz
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