why after every expression is executed,nil is printed

2010-07-30 Thread vishy
Hi,
in REPL when I try out various expressions,nil is printed.why so?

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Re: why after every expression is executed,nil is printed

2010-07-30 Thread Laurent PETIT
Probably because you're not evaluating 'expressions' (whose return value is
important) but rather 'statements' (who are all about side effects, and
whose return value is generally nil).

For example, println is a 'statement' = side effect of writing to *out*,
return value is nil.
Another example: doseq, etc.

2010/7/30 vishy vishalsod...@gmail.com

 Hi,
 in REPL when I try out various expressions,nil is printed.why so?

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