From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Elisp: What does ''nil mean?
Date: 16 May 2003 12:45:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5fznfnpae.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wkptmj9sg9.fsf@t-online.de
Thomas Gehrlein <thomas.gehrlein@t-online.de> writes:
> The following line is from easy-menu-create-menu:
>
> ((eq keyword :active) (setq enable (or arg ''nil)))
>
> It is part of a (cond ...).
>
> What does "''nil" mean?
The same as '(quote nil), an unevaluated list with the two members
quote and nil.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-16 10:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-16 9:00 Elisp: What does ''nil mean? Thomas Gehrlein
2003-05-16 10:45 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2003-05-16 11:35 ` Thomas Gehrlein
2003-05-16 11:57 ` David Kastrup
2003-05-16 16:16 ` Thomas Gehrlein
2003-05-16 16:34 ` Pascal Bourguignon
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