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

[Helmut Eller]

* Steve Yegge [2012-04-25 00:24] writes:

> I haven't started a big flamewar and made fresh new enemies in what has
> to be at least three weeks.  So.  Here goes.
>
> I think we should change all the core string-manipulation functions to deal
> gracefully with nil arguments.  Specifically, I want to change the smallest
> set of functions that may originate the infamous "wrong-type-argument
> (stringp, nil)" error, making them instead treat nil as if it were the empty
> string.

The smallest set of those functions seems to be the empty set (aka. nil
or was it ""?).

Helmut