From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Emacs-Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: split-string behavior change
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:27:08 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18370.6508.301118.933654@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003c01c8774b$48ab7d70$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com>
> IOW, we added an optional third arg, for which the non-nil value - not the
> nil value, gives the same result as before. And using the same code as
> before, with no third arg, now gives a different result (breaks).
>
> That seems backward, to me. Why wasn't the polarity of the new OMIT-NULLS
> arg reversed (and so called INCLUDE-NULLS)?
>
> If this change was a mistake, so be it. But if it was conscious decision and
> not a mistake, then I'm curious to know the reason for it.
Have you looked at the archives or tried googling with split-string and
omit-nulls?
The latter gives me
http://osdir.com/ml/emacs.xemacs.design/2003-04/msg00142.html
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-25 1:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-25 1:10 split-string behavior change Drew Adams
2008-02-25 1:27 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2008-02-25 2:00 ` Drew Adams
2008-02-25 2:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-02-25 2:26 ` Drew Adams
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=18370.6508.301118.933654@kahikatea.snap.net.nz \
--to=nickrob@snap.net.nz \
--cc=drew.adams@oracle.com \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).