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Date:      Thu, 27 Jan 2000 06:11:43 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org>
To:        imp@village.org
Cc:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com, wes@softweyr.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/13644
Message-ID:  <20000127141143.D6BE0155FB@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200001270035.RAA04577@harmony.village.org> (message from Warner Losh on Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:35:51 -0700)

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	s/line/list/

	NIL is what you test against to determin if you have reached
the end of a list.  the empty list is just a NIL ( hand wave over all
the car and cdr reality in favor of a simpler albeit not-correct
description of how it works.)

jmb


> 
> 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.
> 
> Warner
> 



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