At 7:29 Uhr -0800 30.03.1999, Dan Ingalls wrote:
123 size no longer responds with 0. nil size no longer responds with 0.
Why ?
I found the latter extremely handy in cases where one could get back either a (possibly empty) collection or nil.
What does the ANSI standard say about this ?
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