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Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> On Jun 25, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Robert Goldman wrote:
>
>> Question:  what is the proper way to get a NIL into a property?  Are
>> we
>> to use () instead of "nil"?  Or are property values always interpreted
>> as strings?
>>
>> Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question!
>
> Not a stupid question at all.
>
> There is no way, currently.   Property values are string - the only
> way to make
> org-entry-get return nil is to not have the property defined at all.

I've wanted a similar thing in the past for the LOGGING property where
the parent task has special logging set via the LOGGING property but I
want to undo that for some of the child tasks so they use the default
logging setup.

Having a way to undefine a property would be good in general I think.

-Bernt