From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why there is no char type? Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:40:34 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ipywqwx7.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ei9k2zot.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87ei9jr5kf.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292438594 7568 80.91.229.12 (15 Dec 2010 18:43:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:43:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Leo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 15 19:43:10 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSwJf-0004Gk-Dt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:43:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55842 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PSwHX-0003UP-TP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:40:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35161 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PSwHN-0003RS-FY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:40:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PSwHL-0004gN-9n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:40:44 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:59805) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PSwHL-0004gJ-76 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:40:43 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PSwHC-000248-4Z; Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:40:34 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Leo on Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:24:48 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:133719 Archived-At: Then main reason I did not add a char type is that it would require a bunch of new primitives, adding permanently to the complexity of Emacs Lisp and its documentation. As well as complexity of Lisp code that uses characters. -- Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org