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changeset 70331:0cb3de2796ef
(nil and t): Clarify.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Tue, 02 May 2006 00:08:51 +0000 |
| parents | c858388f86c8 |
| children | efe3d60d6396 |
| files | lispref/intro.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/intro.texi Tue May 02 00:08:17 2006 +0000 +++ b/lispref/intro.texi Tue May 02 00:08:51 2006 +0000 @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ addressed as ``you''. ``The user'' is the person who uses Lisp programs, including those you write. -@cindex fonts +@cindex fonts in this manual Examples of Lisp code are formatted like this: @code{(list 1 2 3)}. Names that represent metasyntactic variables, or arguments to a function being described, are formatted like this: @var{first-number}. @@ -187,14 +187,14 @@ there is no way to determine which representation was actually written by the programmer. - In this manual, we use @code{()} when we wish to emphasize that it -means the empty list, and we use @code{nil} when we wish to emphasize + In this manual, we write @code{()} when we wish to emphasize that it +means the empty list, and we write @code{nil} when we wish to emphasize that it means the truth value @var{false}. That is a good convention to use in Lisp programs also. @example (cons 'foo ()) ; @r{Emphasize the empty list} -(not nil) ; @r{Emphasize the truth value @var{false}} +(setq foo-flag nil) ; @r{Emphasize the truth value @var{false}} @end example @cindex @code{t}, uses of