Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 21:49:53 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/13644 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001262149340.315-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <200001270217.DAA36676@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Warner Losh <imp@village.org> wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > > In message <20000126005528.7DC0314BCF@hub.freebsd.org> "Jonathan M. Bresler" writes: > > : The terminology is very simple. Anyone that can cope with > > : either vi or emacs can learn: > > : > > : NUL: an ascii character (0x00) > > : NIL: a pointer at the end of the line > > : NULL pointer: used in C to refer to NIL. > > : not to be confused with NUL. > > > > But NIL is not a poitner at the end of the line in gnu emacs. It is > > the empty list. > > Traditionally, NIL is the last element in a list, which marks > the end of the list. NIL is the abbreviation of "not in list". > (I'm not familiar with elisp, though.) Now that's the definition *I* learned. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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