Re: nil semantics in Lua

[Gé Weijers <ge@...>]

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

On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 02:37 +0300, Cosmin Apreutesei wrote:
> I wonder why lua didn't adopted sql-like semantics for nil, i.e. nil
> transcends all types, short-circuits standard operations and
> functions, and nil ~= nil. It got good with tables though (although
> many ppl see that differently). IMHO, it would had resulted in more
> composability of standard functions and functional idioms, thus more
> expressivity.