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"?
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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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