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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 12:30:52 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] jp: Use `(nil)` for empty identifier strings
To: Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@gmail.com>
Cc: dana <dana@dana.is>, "zsh-workers@zsh.org" <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
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On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 7:23 AM, Joey Pabalinas <joeypabalinas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Indicate the presence of an empty identifier string using `(nil)`; the
> empty string case should still provide a somewhat useful error message using:
>
>> zsh:1: not an identifier: (nil)
>
> rather than:
>
>> zsh:1: not an identifier:
>
> which is fairly confusing and sort of useless.

We use "(nil)" literally nowhere else.  This needs some discussion,
especially before any effort is put into changing any of the
zerr*/zwarn* functions.