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".
next prev parent 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
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=83imnl2sxk.fsf@gnu.org \
--to=eliz@gnu.org \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.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).