Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 03:17:58 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/13644 Message-ID: <200001270217.DAA36676@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <86o40p$2pei$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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Warner Losh <imp@village.org> 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.)
Regards
Oliver
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