From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#44155: Print integers as characters Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2020 23:36:46 +0200 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87imanigpd.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <871rhd3peq.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <608FF40B-D8F6-471E-8036-4779D892E987@acm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="35246"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: 44155@debbugs.gnu.org, Andreas Schwab To: Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=A5rd?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 02 22:44:14 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 1kZhcc-00094R-Cc for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2020 22:44:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47470 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kZhcb-0001wu-Er for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2020 16:44:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59628) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kZhcQ-0001r4-Lr for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2020 16:44:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:59476) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kZhcQ-0006Yo-CH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2020 16:44:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kZhcQ-00042p-9i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2020 16:44:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2020 21:44:02 +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: fixed patch Original-Received: via spool by 44155-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B44155.160435340815495 (code B ref 44155); Mon, 02 Nov 2020 21:44:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 44155) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Nov 2020 21:43:28 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42789 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kZhbr-00041q-S7 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2020 16:43:28 -0500 Original-Received: from relay8-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.201]:55179) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kZhbq-00041Q-4T for 44155@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 02 Nov 2020 16:43:26 -0500 X-Originating-IP: 91.129.102.160 Original-Received: from mail.gandi.net (m91-129-102-160.cust.tele2.ee [91.129.102.160]) (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay8-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B97241BF205; Mon, 2 Nov 2020 21:43:18 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <608FF40B-D8F6-471E-8036-4779D892E987@acm.org> ("Mattias =?UTF-8?Q?Engdeg=C3=A5rd?="'s message of "Sun, 1 Nov 2020 21:52:13 +0100") 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:192572 Archived-At: > Thus we would have 10 -> ?\n, 13 -> ?\r, 127 -> ?\d, 65 -> ?A, > 255 -> ?ÿ, but 31 -> 31, 129 -> 129, 4194303 -> 4194303. Hopefully, printing some characters as numbers will fix the currently broken test. > Since your original motivation was to print characters in pretty-printed > nested Lisp expressions, perhaps we should just define > print-integers-as-characters as a Boolean and skip the radix for the time > being? We could add a print radix control later on if desired. (That would > save us the hassle to deal with bignums, for that matter.) This was my intention - to start with something simple that does only what was needed (to print integers as characters), then extend it later when such a need arises as printing hex numbers. I added hex numbers only as a proof that the variable integer-output-format is extensible enough to support more formats in the future. But as you point out, this is achievable by adding another variable like print-integer-radix. PS: I notices inconsistency in these names: "integer" in print-integer-radix is singular, but "integers" in print-integers-as-characters is plural.