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Bug with the procedure nil? inside a specific code

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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: calcium <calcium <at> disroot.org>
Cc: 33036 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33036: Bug with the procedure nil? inside a specific code
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 01:41:04 -0400

Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> writes:

> calcium <calcium <at> disroot.org> writes:
>> There is a page that speak about nil :
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Nil.html
>> However it doesn’t mention the nil? Procedure
>>
>> The only documentation that I found about nil? is this one :
>>
>> (procedure-documentation nil?)
>> => "- Scheme Procedure: nil? x\n     Return `#t' iff X is nil, else
>> return `#f'."
>
> I agree that the documentation for 'nil?' is woefully inadequate.  We
> should add a manual entry for 'nil?' and improve its docstring.

I did this in commit b44f505f1571fc9c42e58982f161a9cfc81fb7f4 on the
'stable-2.2' branch.

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/commit/?h=stable-2.2&id=b44f505f1571fc9c42e58982f161a9cfc81fb7f4

    Thanks,
      Mark

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