Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y

[Miles Bader]

Steve Yegge <address@hidden> writes:
>   * it's Lispy.  Yes, most Lisp dialects got strings wrong, but that
> shouldn't stop us.  Strings are just character sequences, and whether
> you like it or not, the nil/empty-list equivalence is part of Emacs's
> soul.  Throwing an error on a nil string is a radical departure from
> the core philosophy.

That's a pretty dubious claim...

-miles

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