Open amano-kenji opened 5 months ago
nil
is derived from latin nihil which approximately stands for "no thing". There is no thing (pun intended) like emptyness. Even the cosmic void is filled with reversed Kasimir force (formerly known as dark matter then more recently as dark energy).
I think the Janet doc means "Check if xs has a null valence ( from latin ne ullus, "not one") if I were to use array theory terminology. I know Janet is not based on Array paradigm (unlike a language like Nial) so perhaps Check if xs has a zero dimensionality could be adopted in stead...
... or even "Check if xs has a null length".
Define xs
.
What? Define empty. I thought
nil
was empty.