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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 16106@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16106: 24.3.50; doc of `replace-match'
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 22:56:25 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0326c00d-44f5-4a16-956d-24d594d909ac@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71ee4353-2d1f-4302-ae7e-fa1f5d38dca0@default>

> Most things in Emacs and Lisp in general are zero-based.
> It is not obvious that this is one-based.  And Oth and zeroth
> make as much sense as 1th and oneth.  If counting is zero-based
> then the 0th element is exactly that: the entry that is indexed
> by the number zero.

Let me put it differently: Is there a good reason NOT to say that
"N is a digit from 1 through 9"?





      reply	other threads:[~2014-02-10  6:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-10 23:56 bug#16106: 24.3.50; doc of `replace-match' Drew Adams
2014-02-08  2:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-08  3:33   ` Drew Adams
2014-02-10  6:56     ` Drew Adams [this message]

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