Re: new "empty" value/type in Lua?

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> writes:
>> Er, how about "placeholder"
>
> Much better word than 'sentinel' in my opinion. It isn't a fancy concept. I
> agree with Roberto that we already have a standard value for this purpose;
> false.

false is what I normally use, but every once in a while I have a case
where I also want to store boolean values.

Of course, in that case, I just make my own out-of-band value...

-miles

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