From: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 24369@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24369: Docu of prefix-numeric-value
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 21:37:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87inirc08f.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8de43dfa-e463-4060-9562-0158eb256b3a@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 5 Sep 2016 14:03:17 -0700 (PDT)")
tags 24369 notabug
close 24369
quit
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> > > • ‘nil’, meaning there is no prefix argument. Its numeric value
>> > > is 1,
>> >
>> > That's the point: Value of nil is 1
>>
>> No, the _numeric_ value of nil is 1. IOW, nil, when interpreted
>> as a number, is 1. An entirely different story.
>
> Exactly. The value of `(prefix-numeric-value nil)' is 1.
>
> That's what "numeric value of" the prefix argument means.
> It is also what the shorter expression "the numeric prefix
> argument" means.
>
> The fact that the value of some function applied to nil
> is 1 does not mean that the value of nil is 1.
I think there is nothing more to be done here, so I'm closing the bug.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-17 1:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-05 7:52 bug#24369: Docu of prefix-numeric-value Andreas Röhler
2016-09-05 15:57 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-05 17:44 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-09-05 17:46 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-05 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-05 18:33 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-09-05 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-05 21:03 ` Drew Adams
2017-07-17 1:37 ` npostavs [this message]
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