Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y

[Jeremiah Dodds]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> Steve Yegge <address@hidden> writes:
>> and the downside is that some user is sitting there unable to start
>> Emacs because two required packages -- packages that may be used only
>> on demand or not at all -- are arguing over some runtime value.
>> That's a big downside.
>
> WTF do you keep going on about Emacs startup?

I believe this is because it seems that the "uh-oh i got a nil when I
expected a string" error commonly happens on emacs startup, confusing
new users, presumably after loading some big bunch of elisp.