From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: HiPhish Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: A value for "nothing" Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 00:13:43 +0200 Message-ID: <2046348.sPS2AvV6iK@aleksandar-ixtreme-m5740> References: <874leq4ntg.fsf@fcs20.keithdiane.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1537050452 13430 195.159.176.226 (15 Sep 2018 22:27:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2018 22:27:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: Keith Wright Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 16 00:27:28 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g1J2E-0003Lo-Ne for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 00:27:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56943 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1J4L-0002J1-C1 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 18:29:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42083) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1J2d-000127-JR for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 18:27:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1Ip1-00065A-4Y for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 18:13:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mout01.posteo.de ([185.67.36.65]:54741) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1Ip0-00062X-Pk for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 18:13:47 -0400 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout01.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6CC87210DF for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 00:13:44 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.de; s=2017; t=1537049624; bh=Lf/uU/GLXx6gAMiyii6lcAYbTzr8Ute9PZ+/vMNv/bY=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:From; b=K6Ypo90PVJlN5Qb6/CEMDREE3KiJLARVwMc/K7XR64n/ke5+hoBaJ7yKEywB/r4U2 HJgOjMGUq6BqYqIACMqCx8rO4GBTLP2UDKD5PqW71Nmdnf2Y0eChDWoxelsByJRP3W 1R47LRs6fPUQXtIEJ3HeUe4Q57yxRzAR5Hp/3gA9OuNOVgFtEA4ICS7rw7iSamSsdZ Sa3JMGU8ML0R0dueUkHqL/P7+D7+9ZEP8OGiE4fdYAQVYCtA3Rhre5teOra3EkX70f Li85zIeZLdN8dKrmE9Lvs5F8qJyK0Tsb2zQnHIp5+vH/XEfz1mt+WTcCiCTXjtuidj v6kVPGMeRNGnQ== Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 42CRVb4kRSz6tm6; Sun, 16 Sep 2018 00:13:43 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <874leq4ntg.fsf@fcs20.keithdiane.us> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 185.67.36.65 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-user" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:14883 Archived-At: That raises to connotation that there can be multiple of something: none, one, many. Maybe "nothing" really is the best option. After all, "nihil" is just Latin for "nothing", so I might as well use English. > none?