Re: why does `variable-at-point' return 0?

[Štěpán Němec]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:07:47 +0200
Drew Adams wrote:

> ping
>
>> Just curious.  Why doesn't `variable-at-point' return nil if 
>> there is no variable at point?

[...]

>> What am I missing?

Dunno if you're missing anything, but you're certainly not the only one
wondering. FWIW, for my purposes I've been using the function below ever
since I discovered `variable-at-point':

(defun .variable-at-point ()
  "Sanitized version of the utterly [CENSORED] `variable-at-point'.
\(The latter returns 0 as the failure value. Very useful,
indeed.)"
  (let ((v (variable-at-point)))
    (unless (eq v 0) v)))

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