From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Dynamic loading progress Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 20:49:25 +0100 Message-ID: <878u5p95mi.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <8737w3qero.fsf@lifelogs.com> <831tbn9g9j.fsf@gnu.org> <878u5upw7o.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83ziya8xph.fsf@gnu.org> <83y4du80xo.fsf@gnu.org> <837fld6lps.fsf@gnu.org> <83si3z4s5n.fsf@gnu.org> <83mvu74nhm.fsf@gnu.org> <83d1v34hba.fsf@gnu.org> <83io4u2aze.fsf@gnu.org> <8337vx3kp6.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1448221786 19059 80.91.229.3 (22 Nov 2015 19:49:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 19:49:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: aurelien.aptel+emacs@gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii , tzz@lifelogs.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philipp Stephani Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 22 20:49:41 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a0ado-0005uz-KD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 20:49:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57254 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0ado-0001v6-Rj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 14:49:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40669) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0ade-0001kh-AE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 14:49:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0add-0003hc-Fc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 14:49:30 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47836) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a0ada-0003fp-FU; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 14:49:26 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33421 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1a0adZ-0005zx-NA; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 14:49:25 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4437ADF5F8; Sun, 22 Nov 2015 20:49:25 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Philipp Stephani's message of "Sun, 22 Nov 2015 19:37:43 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:195060 Archived-At: Philipp Stephani writes: >> > An Emacs string is a sequence of integers. >> >> No, it's a sequence of bytes. >> > > From > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/String-Basics.html > : > "In Emacs Lisp, characters are simply integers ... A string is a fixed > sequence of characters" > How a string is represented internally shouldn't be the concern of module > authors. Except that we are not talking about modules written in Emacs Lisp. The qualifier "In Emacs Lisp" does not hold here. -- David Kastrup