Re: Totaly newbie trying to learn LISP at uni

Subject: Re: Totaly newbie trying to learn LISP at uni
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 12 Oct 2002 03:34:56 +0000
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3243382496486911@naggum.no>

* tar@sevak.isi.edu (Thomas A. Russ)
| (null x)   is equivalent to   (and (symbolp x) (listp x))
| (null x)   is equivalent to   (and (listp x) (not (consp x)))

  It makes more sense to regard (null x) as equivalent to (typep x 'null).
  Note that `null´ is a system class the only object of which type is `nil´.

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