From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.ulv.nextra.no!nextra.com!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.smalltalk.advocacy Subject: Re: nil (was Re: A strange question...) Date: 30 Oct 2002 21:19:02 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3245001542719831@naggum.no> References: <3db2da7f$1_1@nntp2.nac.net> <60877d91.0210231303.9dfb4fe@posting.google.com> <3DB9B51B.C74AE073@fcc.net> <1035857902.112381@haldjas.folklore.ee> <1036011026.622577@haldjas.folklore.ee> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1036012743 24126 129.240.65.5 (30 Oct 2002 21:19:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Oct 2002 21:19:03 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:45176 comp.lang.scheme:15209 comp.lang.smalltalk:27582 comp.lang.smalltalk.advocacy:1100 * Sander Vesik | Well, depends on whetever you want to treat '() as a simple constant | or a recursive structure. Why do those have to be exclusive options? In Common Lisp it is both, according as how you look at it. There is never any ambiguity unless you wish to look at nil with the eyes of Pablo Picasso. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.