From: "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is it not possible to use "nil" any more in init files ?
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 01:03:48 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m9k9hj$7ug$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.14534.1416923435.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Phillip Lord wrote:
> I always used
>
> (hated-mode 0)
>
> which seems to be more intuitive than passing nil.
No, it doesn't.
We are not dealing with C or Forth.
In Lisp and Scheme, as a truth value, 2 is the same as
1 and the same as 0. The only thing that is false is
nil (in Scheme, #f).
What if, to the most mindless of users,
2+2=5 seemed more "intuitive" than 2+2=4.
Should elisp be changed so that (+ 2 2) will yield
5? Or should the mindless be required to learn to think?
Rewarding the mindless and penalizing the thoughtful is
a monstrous thing to do.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-20 1:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-22 12:57 Why is it not possible to use "nil" any more in init files ? Alexandre Oberlin
2014-11-22 14:37 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.14325.1416667223.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-25 13:19 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2014-11-25 13:50 ` Phillip Lord
2014-11-25 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.14534.1416923435.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-25 15:07 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2014-11-26 14:15 ` Phillip Lord
[not found] ` <mailman.14661.1417011326.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-26 20:45 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2014-11-27 3:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-01-20 1:03 ` WJ [this message]
2015-01-21 6:50 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <mailman.14536.1416925359.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-25 16:10 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2014-11-26 14:18 ` Phillip Lord
[not found] ` <mailman.14663.1417011535.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-26 14:39 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2014-11-26 21:12 ` Alexandre Oberlin
2015-01-19 10:31 ` WJ
2015-01-19 14:38 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.18143.1421678302.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-01-19 14:56 ` Rusi
2014-11-25 15:07 ` Emacs User
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='m9k9hj$7ug$1@dont-email.me' \
--to=w_a_x_man@yahoo.com \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.