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

[David Kastrup <dak@...>]

Wesley Smith <wesley.hoke@gmail.com> writes:

>> print(table.pack((function()return end)()).n) -- 0
>> print(table.pack((function()return nil end)()).n) -- 1
>> print(table.pack((function()return nil, nil end)()).n) -- 2
>>
>> If 'nil' was to really be indistinguishable from "non-existent", all three
>> would have to print '0'.
>
> more like a "known unknown".  black matter perhaps.  it's there but it
> can't be inspected :)

More like "non-physicists write all sort of crazy nonsense about it and
mistakenly revel in the thought that they can't be wrong".

-- 
David Kastrup