From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Interpret #r"..." as a raw string Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2021 01:08:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20210227.031857.1351840144740816188.conao3@gmail.com> <83pn0mppjd.fsf@gnu.org> <87zgzqz6mu.fsf@db48x.net> <83h7ls67rv.fsf@gnu.org> <83y2f2xc4n.fsf@gnu.org> <83tupowuud.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26318"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: db48x@db48x.net, matt@rfc20.org, conao3@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 07 07:09:28 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lImbY-0006ju-Kl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2021 07:09:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46272 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lImbX-0000kh-NU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2021 01:09:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55094) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lImaH-000050-NT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2021 01:08:09 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53460) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lImaH-0003gZ-0X; Sun, 07 Mar 2021 01:08:09 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lImaF-000055-IV; Sun, 07 Mar 2021 01:08:07 -0500 In-Reply-To: <83tupowuud.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 06 Mar 2021 10:27:06 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:266108 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > So it is okay to talk about a "string constant" or a "constant string" > instead of "string literal"? And likewise with "literal vectors"? We can use the expression "constant string" to mean is a string that is part of the code and stands for itself. A constant object can have any data type that has a read syntax, perhaps with the help of quote. With the help of a macro, it can have any type. But there is no distinction between "constant" and "variable", and what the code actually contains is a string. A "constant string" is simply a string contained in the code. > We generally treat these as equivalent terms. Here's an example: > When similar constants occur as parts of a program, the Lisp > interpreter might save time or space by reusing existing constants or > their components. In another message, I fixed up thnat text. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)