From: Aubrey J. <ag...@al...> - 2004-01-21 04:19:42
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| Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:38:46 -0500 | From: Ken Anderson <kan...@bb...> | | At 12:16 AM 1/16/2004 -0500, Aubrey Jaffer wrote: | >Having #null distinct from #f has caused 3 errors in jscheme.init. | >What purpose does having #null different from '(), #t, and #f serve? | | The short answer is this we chose to distinquish #null from '() or | #f so we could distinguish between them, though i don't think the | argument was strong either way. I agree that checking for #null is | annoying, but what are you actually proposing? I think those functions should return #f for failure. |