From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why there is no char type?
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:03:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bp4nbgzj.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ei9jr5kf.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:
> David Kastrup writes:
> > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:
> >
> > > Leo writes:
> > >
> > > > As the subject line suggested.
> > >
> > > You're using the wrong 'macs, that's why.
> >
> > The right one, you mean.
>
> Not if he wants a char type in Lisp.
He asked why there wasn't one. If he unconditionally wanted one without
wanting to hear reasons, he supposedly would have said so (likely
including asking where to get a different Emacs).
> Both XEmacs and SXEmacs have such a type, and it far more frequently
> leads to detection of bugs than it causes incompatibilities with code
> written for Emacs.
I have a hard time imagining that since automatic conversions in both
directions are in place for compatibility IIRC. Could you point to a
few instances of these frequently detected bugs from your bug tracker?
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-15 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-14 13:04 Why there is no char type? Leo
2010-12-14 13:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-12-14 14:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-15 4:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-12-15 6:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-14 14:31 ` David Kastrup
2010-12-15 5:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-12-15 8:03 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2010-12-16 20:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-12-16 21:06 ` David Kastrup
2010-12-16 21:44 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-12-15 10:24 ` Leo
2010-12-15 18:40 ` Richard Stallman
2010-12-15 21:19 ` Andy Wingo
2010-12-14 14:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-14 14:53 ` Leo
2010-12-14 16:02 ` alin soare
2010-12-14 16:05 ` David Kastrup
2010-12-17 3:39 ` Stefan Monnier
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