From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: should non-breaking space chars act as whitespace for Lisp? Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:45:59 -0700 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182023218 18895 80.91.229.12 (16 Jun 2007 19:46:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:46:58 +0000 (UTC) To: "Emacs-Devel" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 16 21:46:57 2007 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 4.50) id 1HzeEa-0006eq-Mq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:46:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HzeEa-0001Gp-7y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:46:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HzeEW-0001GV-Pj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:46:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HzeES-0001Fv-Cj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:46:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HzeES-0001Fs-9Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:46:48 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HzeER-00068I-ON for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:46:47 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.110]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id l5GJkhx4021269 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:46:43 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id l5GJIPJ6027242 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:46:43 -0600 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw1-141-144-64-42.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt351.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2934167631182023172; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:46:12 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3138 X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by rgminet01.oracle.com id l5GJkhx4021269 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:73108 Archived-At: From: Joost Kremers To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Subject: Re: How to get hours from hh:mm > > (let=A0((timelist=A0(split-string=A0time=A0":"))) > > When I dan give M-x getMinutes and on the prompt give: 00:18, I get: > > Symbol's function definition is void: let > > most likely because there's a hard space after let. This makes me wonder if hard-space chars shouldn't act as whitespace as f= ar as Lisp is concerned, as opposed to having symbol syntax (or whatever - I didn't check this). I don't have an opinion on the matter, but I think th= is is not the first question of this sort I've seen on help-gnu-emacs: users are surprised when what they see as whitespace does act as they expect whitespace to ace.