From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: evaluating numbers Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 00:50:55 +0200 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87imnmdqcw.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <875zjw2emg.fsf@gmx.net> <618B38D9-CD34-4200-8CA1-1A6B0922A83A@traduction-libre.org> <871ruk2d3f.fsf@gmx.net> <3C929D7B-1C10-4713-9EDA-55C80FC36AD8@traduction-libre.org> <835zjvg385.fsf@gnu.org> <83sgmyd6rw.fsf@gnu.org> <835zjucwbz.fsf@gnu.org> <628A3663-BDD3-47C5-B4F4-E260FD900691@traduction-libre.org> <83o8xla50f.fsf@gnu.org> <8336ex9sow.fsf@gnu.org> <4836980E-C425-466C-BB86-5E962C4B3F96@traduction-libre.org> <87zhh440lw.fsf@hase.home> <87y2wn7ot1.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87a791nntq.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <831rua7hjg.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="128986"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 15 00:21:56 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iVOQy-000XKc-4h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Nov 2019 00:21:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34472 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iVOQw-0006Du-Bc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:21:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36796) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iVOQp-0006CL-GO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:21:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iVOQo-0000Px-IX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:21:43 -0500 Original-Received: from beige.elm.relay.mailchannels.net ([23.83.212.16]:40172) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iVOQm-0000NR-TM; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:21:41 -0500 X-Sender-Id: dreamhost|x-authsender|jurta@jurta.org Original-Received: from relay.mailchannels.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay.mailchannels.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 477DE6A0DA9; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 23:21:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from pdx1-sub0-mail-a29.g.dreamhost.com (100-96-18-10.trex.outbound.svc.cluster.local [100.96.18.10]) (Authenticated sender: dreamhost) by relay.mailchannels.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 02C176A1CE4; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 23:21:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Sender-Id: dreamhost|x-authsender|jurta@jurta.org Original-Received: from pdx1-sub0-mail-a29.g.dreamhost.com ([TEMPUNAVAIL]. [64.90.62.162]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384) by 0.0.0.0:2500 (trex/5.18.5); Thu, 14 Nov 2019 23:21:38 +0000 X-MC-Relay: Neutral X-MailChannels-SenderId: dreamhost|x-authsender|jurta@jurta.org X-MailChannels-Auth-Id: dreamhost X-Sponge-Inform: 04398e0f7c30e1d2_1573773694271_2562714944 X-MC-Loop-Signature: 1573773694271:2997769241 X-MC-Ingress-Time: 1573773694270 Original-Received: from pdx1-sub0-mail-a29.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pdx1-sub0-mail-a29.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 882DB84632; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 15:21:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=linkov.net; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=linkov.net; bh=4sVd0D/7KIXqcJ2jbaKwv15RG2A=; b= FsdxuO9iHH5Y2fLrnz8HPdstEcdZGQfN8KBlyZzKN6yFRsV465WyFHM0kGR4koJO OunTM79S9xg775sVcLod0IF5Uv4D86x174Zz8B0D7jR4OZJJ5P1C43WAoCco8OU+ YfSvH5CNwiwLAyO/kADtrG+A2HClz1TAg2rnHshY2bc= Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (m91-129-102-1.cust.tele2.ee [91.129.102.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jurta@jurta.org) by pdx1-sub0-mail-a29.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7032A84614; Thu, 14 Nov 2019 15:21:23 -0800 (PST) X-DH-BACKEND: pdx1-sub0-mail-a29 In-Reply-To: <831rua7hjg.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:45:39 +0200") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 23.83.212.16 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:242209 Archived-At: >> - :type 'integer >> + :type `(choice (const :tag "ASCII characters" 127) >> + (const :tag "Maximum number" ,(max-char)) > > This is sub-optimal, because it leaves the meaning of "maximum number" > unclear. I suggest "Any character" or "No limitation" instead. > >> + (integer :tag "Custom number")) > > And here, I'd suggest "Max codepoint to display as character" instead. Ok, will use this text. But I have more doubts about using (max-char). What if this .el is compiled on 64-bit, where a larger value of 'max-char' will be saved to .elc, but loaded on 32-bit. Will it fail to load such .elc? Maybe instead of (max-char) it would be better to use the value 't' to mean no limitation. Then to check this value explicitly in the implementation of 'eval-expression-print-format'.