[DGD] Re: casting nil (another idea...)

[Robert Forshaw]

>From: Par Winzell <zell at skotos.net>
>>Speaking from a purely personal sense of aesthetics, I'd dislike the
>change. I don't think nil naturally casts to zero.

I guess it depends what you mean by natural. I don't see anything 
mathematically natural about casting anyway. I think zero is the closest 
integer equivilent to nil.

>In fact, given my druthers, if (!foo) would not be true for zero foo's...

Sorry, don't understand...

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