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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>,
	"Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
Cc: 24369@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24369: Docu of prefix-numeric-value
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 14:03:17 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8de43dfa-e463-4060-9562-0158eb256b3a@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83twdub2dl.fsf@gnu.org>

> > >     • ‘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.





  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-05 21:03 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 [this message]
2017-07-17  1:37             ` npostavs

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