Why "unit"?

[Harmon Nine]

Incidental question:

Why is "unit" (as opposed to, say, "frozboz") the non-descript value to
bind a variable to when any atom would do?  Is there a history behind
this, e.g. was it taken from another language?

 

Just curious. :-)

 

-- Harmon

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