a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"
nil is a value usually interpreted as a logical "false " Its opposite is t, interpreted as "true "
The Smalltalk object that means "no value", and the distinguished instance of the UndefinedObject class All pointer variables are initialized to nil nil is somewhat similar to C's null with the important distinction that it is distinct from zero (0)
Refers to returns that are filed with no reported liability Nil returns are required by some agencies to keep the employer's tax identification number active on the agency records