From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
To: Steve Yegge <steve.yegge@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:45:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5pkzafo.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGtm15=Wb1Uv_WvYKQ7hMBkb=2Y1qUJjGnFFkBj6fcPotgXV8g@mail.gmail.com> (Steve Yegge's message of "Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:24:57 -0700")
Steve Yegge <steve.yegge@gmail.com> writes:
>Before you reject the idea out of hand, I'd like to ask that you
>consider carefully
>what behavior would be most consistent with the rest of Emacs, and
>would make
>best use of existing debugging and diagnostic facilities.
>
>Compared to lexical scoping, this change is pretty minor. ;-)
>
>-steve
>
>p.s. (string= nil "") would still yield nil, of course. I'm proposing
>that we treat nil
>as the empty string, not the other way around.
Have you tried making the change in a dev tree and seeing what the first
things to break are?
I'm not sold on the idea anyway, I have to admit -- that "wrong-type"
error has been a valuable source of early bug detection for me many
times -- but the above seems like a worthwhile experiment for those who
like the proposal and want to investigate it.
-K
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-25 4:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-25 0:24 proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y Steve Yegge
2012-04-25 4:45 ` Karl Fogel [this message]
2012-04-25 6:28 ` Miles Bader
2012-04-25 6:34 ` Miles Bader
2012-04-25 13:21 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-05-01 22:01 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-04-25 7:53 ` Helmut Eller
2012-04-25 8:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-25 14:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-25 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-25 15:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-25 16:41 ` Miles Bader
2012-04-25 16:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-04-25 16:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-04-26 21:20 ` Steve Yegge
2012-04-26 22:11 ` Miles Bader
2012-04-26 23:52 ` Steve Yegge
2012-04-27 0:29 ` Miles Bader
2012-04-27 3:20 ` Jeremiah Dodds
2012-04-27 3:41 ` Miles Bader
2012-04-27 3:59 ` Jeremiah Dodds
2012-04-27 4:24 ` Miles Bader
2012-04-27 8:49 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2012-04-27 14:23 ` Nix
2012-04-28 2:07 ` Better startup error handling (was: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y) Stefan Monnier
2012-04-28 12:04 ` Better startup error handling Nix
2012-04-28 15:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-28 15:42 ` David Engster
2012-04-28 15:55 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-28 19:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-28 17:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-04-30 8:43 ` Christian Lynbech
2012-04-30 9:18 ` chad
2012-04-27 16:35 ` proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y Richard Stallman
2012-04-27 1:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-27 1:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-04-27 16:35 ` Richard Stallman
2012-04-28 11:13 ` Eli Barzilay
2012-04-28 17:02 ` Richard Stallman
2012-04-28 19:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-28 21:56 ` Eli Barzilay
2012-06-03 3:45 ` Richard Stallman
2012-04-27 4:17 ` Steve Yegge
2012-04-27 6:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-27 19:05 ` Steve Yegge
2012-04-27 21:24 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-28 4:43 ` Steve Yegge
2012-04-28 6:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-04-29 21:26 ` Odd formatting (was: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y) Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-04-30 7:48 ` Odd formatting Steinar Bang
2012-04-30 10:14 ` Antoine Levitt
2012-04-30 13:27 ` Nix
2012-04-28 2:02 ` proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y Stefan Monnier
2012-04-25 14:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-04-29 17:00 ` Andreas Röhler
2012-04-29 17:08 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-29 17:29 ` Andreas Röhler
2012-04-29 18:01 ` Drew Adams
2012-04-29 19:51 ` PJ Weisberg
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