Re: In praise of 'nil' (Was: Proposal for table length operator

[Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@...>]

>    What happened before the Big Bang?  Nil.

As empiricist I must say, no. We don't know. Might been Nil, might
been something else. Currently no way to guess.

> And nobody, really nobody, stops you from writing
>    if a==nil then
> when you can't think of a more elegant (but probably more
> obfuscated) way to do what you mean.

I actually do that, since if t[a] then ... might be false if it is
false and not nil.