From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 27 6:11:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 608) id D6BE0155FB; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 06:11:43 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" To: imp@village.org Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, wes@softweyr.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: <200001270035.RAA04577@harmony.village.org> (message from Warner Losh on Wed, 26 Jan 2000 17:35:51 -0700) Subject: Re: kern/13644 Message-Id: <20000127141143.D6BE0155FB@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 06:11:43 -0800 (PST) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message