Subject: Re: bug#24369: Docu of prefix-numeric-value

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2016 21:57:58 +0300

> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> From: Andreas Röhler <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 20:33:21 +0200
> 
> >     • ‘nil’, meaning there is no prefix argument.  Its numeric value is
> >       1,
> 
> That's the point:
> 
> Value of nil is 1

No, the _numeric_ value of nil is 1.  IOW, nil, when interpreted as a
number, is 1.  An entirely different story.

> Consistency means something different.

The numeric value of nil is consistently 1.