From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why there is no char type? Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:03:12 +0900 Message-ID: <87ei9jr5kf.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87ipywqwx7.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ei9k2zot.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292389542 1858 80.91.229.12 (15 Dec 2010 05:05:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:05:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 15 06:05:38 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 1PSjYV-0006Ud-S5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:05:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60715 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PSjYV-0007dm-7Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:05:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39305 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PSjYR-0007df-6O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:05:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PSjYP-0001yE-W8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:05:30 -0500 Original-Received: from imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.254.161]:43311) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PSjYO-0001xb-J4; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:05:28 -0500 Original-Received: from imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp [127.0.0.1]) by postfix.imss71 (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42FB52AF543; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:05:27 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (unknown [130.158.97.223]) by imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 358092AF542; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:05:27 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33C483FA0556; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:05:27 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7A9661A3BD1; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:03:12 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87ei9k2zot.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" ed3b274cc037 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) 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:133708 Archived-At: 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. 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. Big win for us IMO (vs. XEmacs not having a char type; I'm not comparing the different 'macs *except* from the point of view of having a char type, and that's not arguable. S?XEmacs has it, GNU don't.)