From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 26 18:50:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 073D31548D for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:50:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA49974 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 21:49:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 21:49:53 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/13644 In-Reply-To: <200001270217.DAA36676@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Warner Losh 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