From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>,
4400@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com
Subject: bug#4400: 23.1.50; char-syntax
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:53:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83skesyx9s.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AAB5C4A.4040606@easy-emacs.de>
> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:31:06 +0200
> From: Andreas =?UTF-8?Q?R=C3=B6hler?= <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
> Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>, 4400@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
>
> > In Emacs, a character is represented by an integer object
> > (of valid character-code range).
>
> What if docu would say:
>
> "For example, if CHARACTER is a word constituent, `119' is returned."
>
> or maybe still better
>
> "For example, if CHARACTER is a word constituent, numeric value of character `w' is returned, which is `119' in Emacs internal representation."
In GNU Emacs, characters and integers are one and the same. So the
text you suggest would make things even more confusing.
A Lisp code that needs to test against character syntax class should
use ?w etc. ?w is another way to say 119.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-12 15:53 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 [this message]
2009-09-12 17:16 ` martin rudalics
2009-09-18 23:50 ` bug#4400: marked as done (23.1.50; char-syntax) Emacs bug Tracking System
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