Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y

[Richard Stallman]

    I'm really really happy that Emacs Lisp isn't Scheme-like.  Stuff like

    (assq 'foo bar) ⇒  #f

    would just drive me totally batty.

I think splitting apart the different meanings of nil in Lisp
was an unfortunate mistake in Scheme.  This sort of cleanliness
is only desirable theoretically, not in practice.


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