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* Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115149: Doc fixes.
       [not found] <E1Vihum-0006bz-KH@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
@ 2013-11-19 13:08 ` Stefan Monnier
  2013-11-19 15:46   ` Drew Adams
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2013-11-19 13:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Xue Fuqiao; +Cc: emacs-devel

> +@c FIXME: The return value is decimal?  Octal?  We should explain it

There's no such thing as "an octal integer" or a "decimal integer".
They're just "integers", which can be printed using an
octal/decimal/hex/binary/... representation.


        Stefan



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* RE: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115149: Doc fixes.
  2013-11-19 13:08 ` [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115149: Doc fixes Stefan Monnier
@ 2013-11-19 15:46   ` Drew Adams
  2013-11-20  2:53     ` Xue Fuqiao
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2013-11-19 15:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stefan Monnier, Xue Fuqiao; +Cc: emacs-devel

> There's no such thing as "an octal integer" or a "decimal integer".
> They're just "integers", which can be printed using an
> octal/decimal/hex/binary/... representation.

Aka an octal/decimal/hex/binary/... numeral.

A numeral is a representation of a number.



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* Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r115149: Doc fixes.
  2013-11-19 15:46   ` Drew Adams
@ 2013-11-20  2:53     ` Xue Fuqiao
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Xue Fuqiao @ 2013-11-20  2:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Drew Adams; +Cc: Stefan Monnier, emacs-devel

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> There's no such thing as "an octal integer" or a "decimal integer".
>> They're just "integers", which can be printed using an
>> octal/decimal/hex/binary/... representation.
>
> Aka an octal/decimal/hex/binary/... numeral.
>
> A numeral is a representation of a number.

I see.  Thank you.  I've removed this FIXME in trunk revision 115154.

-- 
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/



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