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

[Richard Stallman]

    I believe this is because it seems that the "uh-oh i got a nil when I
    expected a string" error commonly happens on emacs startup, confusing
    new users, presumably after loading some big bunch of elisp.

This sort of error -- at startup or not -- is a sign of a real bug, a
variable not properly set up.  Making string functions not signal
errors would paper it over, which does not mean things would work
correctly.


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