From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#44155: Print integers as characters Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 21:53:53 +0200 Message-ID: <83imayf5f2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877drh7unm.fsf@igel.home> <87lffxuwgn.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87d0172yev.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83mu0afcex.fsf@gnu.org> <87wnzenmwc.fsf@mail.linkov.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3189"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 44155@debbugs.gnu.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 25 20:55:11 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kWm6h-0000gS-6u for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2020 20:55:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49594 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kWm6f-00026g-Oi for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2020 15:55:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37176) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kWm6Y-00026J-Ht for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2020 15:55:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:54406) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kWm6Y-0008U4-7j for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2020 15:55:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kWm6Y-0005Cq-7E for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2020 15:55:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 19:55:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 44155 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 44155-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B44155.160365565119950 (code B ref 44155); Sun, 25 Oct 2020 19:55:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 44155) by debbugs.gnu.org; 25 Oct 2020 19:54:11 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37719 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kWm5j-0005Bi-2W for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2020 15:54:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36992) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kWm5h-0005BV-Se for 44155@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2020 15:54:10 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:39757) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kWm5b-0008Q2-7x; Sun, 25 Oct 2020 15:54:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2277 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kWm5a-0004dr-EZ; Sun, 25 Oct 2020 15:54:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87wnzenmwc.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Sun, 25 Oct 2020 21:09:07 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:191534 Archived-At: > From: Juri Linkov > Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, 44155@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 21:09:07 +0200 > > > And, btw, why not allow raw bytes here as well? is there some problem? > > Because of ambiguity, both these return the same value: > > (read (concat "?" (string 128))) => 128 > (read (concat "?" (string 4194176))) => 128 And why is that a problem? Alternatively, we could print raw bytes in some special way. But not treating them as characters sounds some subtlety that will be hard to explain.