Re: guile and emacs and elisp, oh my!

[Andy Wingo]

On Fri 23 Apr 2010 12:19, <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> "Andy" == Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Andy> I think it's good because Scheme or Elisp lists and booleans can be
> Andy> passed back and forth, and traversing those lists or testing values for
> Andy> truth Just Works(tm). Of course, there are a couple of pitfalls; these
> Andy> are noted in the docs there.
>
> I may have missed it in the doc, but what will
>
>         (car nil)
>
> return?

In Scheme, this is an error. In Elisp, it returns nil. They are actually
two different operators, that just happen to share the same name.

Andy
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