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On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 10:19:31PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>     mb>    I think Stephen's formulation is very natural, in that you
>     mb> usually want OMIT-NULLS to be t if you're splitting on a
>     mb> non-whitespace string.
> 
> Miles, here you meant OMIT-NULLS to be nil, right?

Yeah.

-Miles
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