Re: [pure-lang-users] null

[John C. <co...@cc...>]

Albert Graef scripsit:

> It's null for Haskell compatibility. I think it's been called null in Q
> already for a long time, maybe even going back to Bird/Wadler ed. 1
> which Q's notation was originally based on. And Lisp uses 'null', too.

Scheme's Great Renaming did go with "null?" though.  Kind of a pity, I think,
that you don't allow ? as an identifier character (at least at the end);
that way all predicates could uniformly use it.

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