Re: [Chicken-hackers] The use of the null-pointer and null-pointer? procedures

[Felix]

From: Peter Bex <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] The use of the null-pointer and null-pointer? 
procedures
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 12:27:58 +0200

> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 05:25:12AM -0400, Felix wrote:
>> > I was wondering what use does (null-pointer?) has.
>> 
>> Historical. I will deprecate.
> 
> Thanks, Felix.  I noticed the documentation says
> "Another way to say (address->pointer 0)".  Should the address->pointer
> procedure return #f when given 0?

No, otherwise you couldn't create a pointer object containing a NULL
pointer... :-) I think we can expect a user to be able to code this.


cheers,
felix