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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: evaluating numbers
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 15:03:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83imnl2sxk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BD1194BA-DBC9-48BB-9EE8-80DDAD6DCA59@traduction-libre.org> (message from Jean-Christophe Helary on Fri, 15 Nov 2019 19:36:21 +0900)

> From: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>
> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 19:36:21 +0900
> 
> Whatever I read about characters starts with the statement "Characters are integers" or a differently worded equivalent.
> 
> There is nothing that says why or how.

The answer to "why" is "because that's how characters are
implemented".  The answer to "how" is "by interpreting the integer as
character when the context requires that".



  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-15 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-07  9:43 evaluating numbers Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-07  9:57 ` Stephen Berman
2019-11-07 10:20   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-07 10:30     ` Stephen Berman
2019-11-07 10:40       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-07 14:39         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-08  0:36           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-08 10:03             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-08 12:23               ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-08 13:22                 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-09  0:20                   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-09  7:24                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-08 13:49                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-09  0:15                   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-09  7:22                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-09 11:18                       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-09 11:48                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-10  0:59                           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-10  8:06                             ` Andreas Schwab
2019-11-10 20:52                               ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-12 20:28                                 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-12 22:05                                   ` Drew Adams
2019-11-12 22:21                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-12 23:30                                       ` Drew Adams
2019-11-13  8:10                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-13 14:47                                           ` Drew Adams
2019-11-14 12:45                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 22:50                                     ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-14 23:40                                       ` Noam Postavsky
2019-11-15  8:14                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14  9:22                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14  9:46                               ` Yuri Khan
2019-11-14 11:36                                 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-14 13:55                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-14 13:59                                   ` Noam Postavsky
2019-11-14 14:17                                     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-14 21:44                                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-11-14 14:03                                   ` Andreas Schwab
2019-11-14 14:10                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 17:10                                   ` Paul Eggert
2019-11-14 18:32                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 18:39                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15  8:32                                       ` Štěpán Němec
2019-11-15 14:54                                       ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 15:16                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 15:32                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 15:55                                             ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 16:00                                               ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 16:11                                                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-15 16:33                                                   ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 16:13                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-17  2:15                                             ` Richard Stallman
2019-11-17 20:02                                               ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-18 16:25                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-18 16:54                                                   ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-18 17:05                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-20 13:00                                                       ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-20 16:40                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-20 17:09                                                           ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-20 17:45                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-19  6:08                                                 ` Richard Stallman
2019-11-19  9:50                                                   ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 15:53                                           ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 16:13                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 16:43                                               ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 16:59                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-16 20:40                                       ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-17 17:34                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-17 21:16                                           ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-14 22:56                                 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-09 16:03                         ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-10  0:22                           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-10  4:47                             ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-13 23:02                               ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-14 13:52                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-14  9:20                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 11:35                               ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-14 13:37                                 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-11-14 14:20                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 10:36                                   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-15 13:03                                     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-04-28 14:52                                       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-04-28 15:05                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-28 17:28                                           ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 23:16                                           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-04-29  0:08                                             ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-29  0:21                                               ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-04-29  7:08                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-29  8:00                                               ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-04-29  3:23                                           ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-29  3:49                                             ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-04-29  3:51                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-29 10:09                                               ` Po Lu
2020-04-30  2:34                                               ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-30  3:04                                                 ` Stefan Monnier

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