what exactly is "None" ?

[Erik Max Francis]

Mark McEahern wrote:

> None is a singleton.  I don't know whether it's correct to say that
> it's a
> Boolean false value.

Well, it certainly evaluates to false in a Boolean context, just as 0,
0.0, 0L, [], (), etc. do.

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