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tags 24369 notabug
close 24369
quit

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> > >     =E2=80=A2 =E2=80=98nil=E2=80=99, meaning there is no prefix argu=
ment.  Its numeric value
>> > >       is 1,
>> >
>> > That's the point: Value of nil is 1
>>=20
>> No, the _numeric_ value of nil is 1.  IOW, nil, when interpreted
>> as a number, is 1.  An entirely different story.
>
> Exactly.  The value of `(prefix-numeric-value nil)' is 1.
>
> That's what "numeric value of" the prefix argument means.
> It is also what the shorter expression "the numeric prefix
> argument" means.
>
> The fact that the value of some function applied to nil
> is 1 does not mean that the value of nil is 1.

I think there is nothing more to be done here, so I'm closing the bug.