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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: lg.zevlg@gmail.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: file-exists-p on empty string
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 21:16:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sgw9jb32.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EA273037-F168-40FA-AED6-8425A845A348@gmail.com> (lg.zevlg@gmail.com)

> From: lg.zevlg@gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 22:04:15 +0300
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > Why do you need to reject empty strings?
> 
> Filenames are generated externally, and the tool uses empty string notion for no-file semantic

Isn't that un-Emacsy?  Why not nil?



  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-27 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-27 12:29 file-exists-p on empty string Evgeny Zajcev
2019-02-27 14:15 ` Michael Albinus
2019-02-27 15:29   ` Troy Hinckley
2019-02-27 15:43   ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-27 16:01     ` Michael Albinus
2019-02-27 16:55       ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-27 18:09         ` Michael Albinus
2019-02-27 16:11     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-27 16:16       ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-27 16:30     ` Andreas Schwab
2019-02-27 19:40     ` lg.zevlg
2019-02-27 15:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-27 16:00   ` Robert Pluim
2019-02-27 16:15     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-27 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-27 18:42   ` lg.zevlg
2019-02-27 18:46     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-02-27 19:04       ` lg.zevlg
2019-02-27 19:16         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-02-27 19:29           ` lg.zevlg
2019-02-27 19:30         ` Stefan Monnier
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-02-27 20:07 lg.zevlg
2019-02-27 21:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-02-27 22:01   ` Drew Adams
2019-02-28  3:24     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-06  9:51   ` Michael Albinus
2019-03-08  6:11     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-09  8:48       ` Michael Albinus
2019-02-27 22:09 lg.zevlg
2019-02-27 22:23 ` Drew Adams
2019-02-27 22:41   ` Evgeny Zajcev
2019-02-27 23:23     ` Drew Adams
2019-02-28  0:08       ` Evgeny Zajcev
2019-02-28  1:16     ` Stefan Monnier

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