From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Inconsistencies regarding nil coding-system
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:58:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834oahiute.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tl7r5dm15fy.fsf@m17n.org>
> From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:45:53 +0900
>
> some old codes still treat nil for `no-conversion'
I see a few of such places in coding.c; are there others?
If coding.c is the only place, I think we can safely change it to
tread nil as unidecided.
> and new codes consider nil as "unspecified" and thus treat it as
> `undecided'. Perhaps, ver. 24 is a good timing to wipe out this
> confusion, but I'm not sure how to treat nil. Nil should usually
> mean "unspecified", and what exactly "unspecified" means depends on
> a situaion.
What would be a situation where it's inappropriate to interpret nil as
undecided?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-13 14:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-11 10:33 Inconsistencies regarding nil coding-system Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-13 7:45 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-12-13 14:58 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-12-14 1:41 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-12-14 4:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-14 4:40 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-12-14 7:44 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-12-14 9:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-14 11:03 ` Kenichi Handa
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2010-12-11 10:33 Eli Zaretskii
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