From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 4400@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com
Subject: bug#4400: 23.1.50; char-syntax
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:16:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AABD765.7090208@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83skesyx9s.fsf@gnu.org>
> In GNU Emacs, characters and integers are one and the same. So the
> text you suggest would make things even more confusing.
Admittedly, the Elisp manual seems more aware of Andreas' problem and
does "use `string' to make it easier to see the character returned by
`char-syntax'".
> A Lisp code that needs to test against character syntax class should
> use ?w etc. ?w is another way to say 119.
We could pretend that a person who doesn't know that should not use
`char-syntax'. But we could also be more helpful, for example, by
providing a link to the manual.
martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-12 17:16 UTC|newest]
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2009-09-11 6:38 ` bug#4400: 23.1.50; char-syntax Andreas Roehler
2009-09-11 10:15 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-09-11 11:04 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-09-12 8:31 ` Andreas Röhler
2009-09-12 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-12 17:16 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2009-09-18 23:50 ` bug#4400: marked as done (23.1.50; char-syntax) Emacs bug Tracking System
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