Re: [Chicken-users] New immediate values (was: DBI)

[John Cowan]

felix winkelmann scripsit:

> When you look for a generic "null" or "void" object, that is used for a
> particular library, then any unique value is sufficient, whether immediate
> or not.

I agree; however, this is not a matter of a particular library, but
of a large number of libraries, not all of which have anything to do
with databases.

> As I already replied to Graham, immediacy vs. non-immediacy is
> an implementation detail and shouldn't concern us here. 

I have already conceded this point.  The issue is having a unique object
universally available that is of a disjoint type.

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