nil or #nil? (What the ANSI Standard says)

JArchibald at aol.com JArchibald at aol.com
Tue Aug 25 18:59:39 UTC 1998


In a message dated 8/25/98 2:55:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Allen_Wirfs-
Brock at Instantiations.com writes:

> If an identifier appears
>  as an <array element> and it is one of the reserved identifiers nil, true
>  or false the value of the corresponding element of the collection is the
>  value of that reserved identifier.

so it looks like the standard says that #(nil true false) is equivalent to
	Array with: nil with: true with: false

Is that the way others read it?     Jerry.





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