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From: shebs@Apple.COM (Stanley Todd Shebs)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Overloading of NIL (as empty list and logical falsity)
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Date: 23 Mar 89 18:04:25 GMT
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In article <8247@csli.STANFORD.EDU> johnson@csc.brown.edu (Mark Johnson) writes:
>[...] it struck me that
>maybe the overloading of the symbol NIL as both logical falsity
>and also the empty list as is common in Lisp might not be such a 
>good idea.

There's an amusing song that somebody posted a while ago about translating
something like (cdr (assoc ...)) from traditional Lisp into T.  By the time
it was done, the code was about five lines long...

							stan shebs
							shebs@apple.com