Re: nil semantics in Lua

[Cosmin Apreutesei <cosmin.apreutesei@...>]

> You're advocating that x ~= nil for all x (including nil). That may be
> useful in an SQL environment, but silly when you want to determine the
> end of a linked list.
>
> Gé
>

Sure you'd need some facility to test for nil. In sql that's IS [NOT] NULL.