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From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: datatypes in Elisp Info: mention "things" for which there is no   "thing" datatype - e.g. faces
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 11:38:17 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d9hg24$bvj$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc339e4a05062318283396cc2d@mail.gmail.com>

Miles Bader wrote:
 > I tend to think of datatypes in lisp as being disjoint categories of
 > values; a value can only every have one datatype.

But types form a hierarchy, see e.g.
M-: (info "(elisp)Sequences Arrays Vectors")

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-24 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-23 16:00 datatypes in Elisp Info: mention "things" for which there is no "thing" datatype - e.g. faces Drew Adams
2005-06-23 17:24 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-06-23 17:34   ` Drew Adams
2005-06-24  1:28 ` Miles Bader
2005-06-24 13:58   ` Drew Adams
2005-06-24 17:38   ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2005-06-24 18:41   ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-24 21:22     ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-06-24 22:16     ` Miles Bader
2005-06-24  5:36 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-24  6:32   ` Kenichi Handa
2005-06-25  0:31     ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-06-24 13:58   ` datatypes in Elisp Info: mention "things" for which there is no"thing" " Drew Adams
2005-06-24 14:21   ` datatypes in Elisp Info: mention "things" for which there is no "thing" " Stefan Monnier

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