From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-05-09T11:16:34+09:00
Subject: Re: No Thing Here vs Uninitialized and RCR 303

Hi --

On Mon, 9 May 2005, John Carter wrote:

> That is why I have now withdrawn my RCR, and are working instead on an 
> implementation of the Nothing class, leaving "nil" to mean "uninitialized".

I'm not getting exactly what you mean by "mean".  Do you mean there's
a convention of initializing variables to nil, prior to (say) their
use as iterator variables or counters?  If so, that's very different
from an uninitialized variable.

Or do you mean instance variables and global variables, which evaluate
to nil by default prior to being initialized?


David

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David A. Black
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