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: Sat, 15 Sep 2018 16:50:23 +0200 Message-ID: <4788508.1c4UXzb1d1@aleksandar-ixtreme-m5740> References: <8995890.4T62A8Hj0k@aleksandar-ixtreme-m5740> <2244446.TfDt2vcRxf@aleksandar-ixtreme-m5740> 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 1537022941 26060 195.159.176.226 (15 Sep 2018 14:49:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2018 14:49:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: John Cowan Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 15 16:48:56 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 1g1BsV-0006Vy-Qv for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 16:48:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55753 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1BuW-0002KA-Ha for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 10:51:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36384) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1Bu3-0002K5-Db for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 10:50:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1Bu0-0000pE-93 for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 10:50:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mout02.posteo.de ([185.67.36.66]:52197) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g1Btz-0000nE-V6 for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 10:50:28 -0400 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout02.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0F5E820EC0 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 16:50:24 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.de; s=2017; t=1537023025; bh=Ys0wXw4Dn1Hz64HfgQd5wMcgrQfctkdWjaISMyyjJNs=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:From; b=MzuaCa7bXrcgW2sBlqmAtMYES0eyoMEc05OH3wTAtuHPcH+mr5pd/VbX630ckguYM Byu6K9GFfaEoVDhNOUvj1zpRxXh4JfQOIwaq+FHPtrgVJCJ6xpf5+kuIXdYrynR4j9 GSeX6IELngShjmSALRDMzteoJDaSB60zFKBeczb+eM9sDi4Ty/ZcNfq2LxzAOBHTBT peMq8tXlaAGVBPWlKJqFSFfi1+GS7icxGiRjg66MILP37x06f1JMcCx+I1bYW+xigy zQfTyX6H1XVMHbsMn9+n0OJgk53CQAjDPSZq+c31nunU6AIJzlKbvvVNyVaA9pd2g7 p165Q+J5HW7fQ== Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 42CFg36hz5z9rxG; Sat, 15 Sep 2018 16:50:23 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 185.67.36.66 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:14877 Archived-At: Not a fan of either, "nada" is not English, and "nix" is a slang term, unlikely to be known to foreign speakers (I didn't know about it myself). How about "nihil", it's an inter-lingual term and close to "nil" in sound. you wrote: > You're right about null? being a problem. `Nothing` suggests an option > type. What about 'nada' or 'nix'?