From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:01:42 -0700 Message-ID: <4FA3DC9EF4284B27953CBC9907195715@us.oracle.com> References: <4F9D7399.4050703@online.de> <4F9D7A6C.9070806@online.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335722528 27134 80.91.229.3 (29 Apr 2012 18:02:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:02:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Steve Yegge' , 'Emacs developers' To: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?'Andreas_R=F6hler'?=" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 29 20:02:07 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SOYRi-0002Yn-10 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:02:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50454 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOYRh-0003fR-EK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:02:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38009) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOYRc-0003c4-TR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:02:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOYRb-0007KS-9o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:02:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com ([148.87.113.117]:37977) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOYRb-0007K6-2c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:01:59 -0400 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q3TI1saq019650 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:01:55 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt356.oracle.com (acsmt356.oracle.com [141.146.40.156]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q3TI1rIQ011262 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:01:54 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt110.oracle.com (abhmt110.oracle.com [141.146.116.62]) by acsmt356.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id q3TI1rGm002472; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:01:53 -0500 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.176.150) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:01:53 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <4F9D7A6C.9070806@online.de> Thread-Index: Ac0mLZ6bVCVKg/c9Qh+9a3sU6d2BrQAA8Y5w X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-Received-From: 148.87.113.117 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150142 Archived-At: > if the empty list is nil, why the empty string > should yield true? for me (equal nil "")==> t > would be plausible Seeing a new patch of sky, our worm has designs of wiggling its way out of the almost open can... But "" is a very short worm, and it has a long way to wiggle...