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Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y
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Randal L. Schwartz |
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Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y |
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Tue, 01 May 2012 15:01:46 -0700 |
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>>>>> "Ted" == Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
Ted> So it makes sense to me that an empty string would be more like a
Ted> 0-length vector. This is a painful area in Perl[1], which treats undef
Ted> *and* several strings as equivalent in a boolean context. I think it
Ted> would be painful in Emacs Lisp too.
Seconded.
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