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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 8764544: Treat control characters in JSON strings as invalid
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 20:50:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAArVCkR2osUgLWoNpx=DF55PX1iFoSRSZJggrZ-RRVhMqTK3ng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvo9puldwc.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> schrieb am Do., 28. Sep. 2017 um
23:22 Uhr:

> >> >>> -  (or (char-after (point)) :json-eof))
> >> >> I wonder why it used :json-eof instead of using nil ?
> >> >> Any idea?
> >> > Not sure--it has been there since json.el was added to Emacs.
> >> Then why use 0 now instead of nil?
> > Because `following-char' returns 0 at EOB. "At the end of the buffer or
> > accessible region, return 0."
>
> But it also returns 0 in other cases.  E.g. if you had changed
>
>     (or (char-after (point)) :json-eof)
> to
>     (char-after)
>
> it would give you nil at EOB (instead of 0).
>
>
Agreed.
I'm wondering what the purpose of `following-char' is. Even in the rare
cases where you want to treat EOB and a following null character
identically it would be cleaner to write (or (char-after) 0).

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-29 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2017-08-18  7:51   ` [Emacs-diffs] master 8764544: Treat control characters in JSON strings as invalid Stefan Monnier
2017-08-18 14:13     ` Mark Oteiza
2017-08-18 20:24       ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-28 20:19         ` Philipp Stephani
2017-09-28 21:22           ` Stefan Monnier
2017-09-29 20:50             ` Philipp Stephani [this message]
2017-09-29 20:59               ` Stefan Monnier

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