[ Redirected to xemacs-beta. ] Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: > Hrvoje> I may be misreading Olivier's code, but I think he's using > Hrvoje> all-zero-bit Lisp objects in TPD because Qunbound is not > Hrvoje> around when that code has to run. > > Then we should resurrect Qnull_pointer, except that we should call > it something more appropriate. And document that it should never ever be used, except by Olivier Galibert on a bad day. :-) As for the name: I propose Qzero_bits. IMHO it conveys the name and purpose well. You're right that QNULL has a chance of being confused with Qnil and stuff.