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: Why there is no char type? Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:03:12 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87bp4nbgzj.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87ipywqwx7.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ei9k2zot.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87ei9jr5kf.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292400220 7472 80.91.229.12 (15 Dec 2010 08:03:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:03:40 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 15 09:03:37 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSmKl-00024p-NB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:03:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33203 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PSmKl-000370-Ay for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:03:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56823 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PSmKe-00035J-LI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:03:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PSmKd-0006LG-0y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:03:28 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:57939) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PSmKc-0006L1-Qi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:03:26 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSmKa-00020r-G0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:03:24 +0100 Original-Received: from p508ece73.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.142.206.115]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:03:24 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by p508ece73.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:03:24 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508ece73.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5QNe0R7DSDyYjeSMPo4GzIB2iDQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:133712 Archived-At: "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > David Kastrup writes: > > "Stephen J. Turnbull" 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