> On Nov 23, 2022, at 12:23 PM, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
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> Yet, nil is only seldom a good domain object.

Precisely. Being disjoint from any domain it is the ideal “I am not a domain object” marker. So when one wants a variable to range over a domain and the singleton “not a member of the domain” nil is a great choice.  And that’s exactly how I use it below.

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>> On 23. Nov 2022, at 19:34, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
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>> I won't quote it all again but what Eliot wrote is important. There are good solid reasons why Smalltalk has a rigorously defined UndefinedObject. We demand rigorously defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
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