From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using empty_string as the only "" string Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:45:13 +0200 Message-ID: References: <462E310C.20400@yandex.ru> <87vefliha4.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177451139 13091 80.91.229.12 (24 Apr 2007 21:45:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:45:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , Dmitry Antipov , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Miles Bader" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 24 23:45:37 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 1HgSpK-0007Sh-9D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:45:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgSus-0002xV-7G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:51:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgSua-0002kL-Pt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:51:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HgSuZ-0002jf-9E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:51:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HgSuZ-0002jY-16 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:50:59 -0400 Original-Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.226]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HgSp0-0005ym-Au for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:45:14 -0400 Original-Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i23so2078871wra for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:45:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Fh0jl7K5vfSWmH/SkOM7+AEdc8+5YKppvqIUS2YItJ/bcWVK8j/K2qboWNYDL82FkKSTAU7EQabTbqv+7TZ3qn02C+nSMcWaHYssk4q9F+yESwTKEpe9iGH9MnDIkvfLkkczUfePYA3CjJSYDlWzy3+IbGTCVKgfEcq9N8ZihTw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=D8peWZPnKVnR621SNryYPWLY2hAhW5FZTNAEEUTG9SpdRAqmkf3jJ7F5jVieBLb/f8VD2nX9dkMDJ+uTZhRixtSb7EmkCVnLztbSM9dGt/R/sByJu5dOUd89RQgCY50IAaTeNpvi4cJtgXVsnxK5A6p8bG7jJ0dNlbPv7q3KDEM= Original-Received: by 10.90.105.19 with SMTP id d19mr6907854agc.1177451113487; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:45:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.90.87.8 with HTTP; Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:45:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87vefliha4.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) 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:69996 Archived-At: On 4/24/07, Miles Bader wrote: > If so, it's because you misunderstand lisp. Oh, I'm not a big expert in Lisp, but I don't think I'm misunderstanding anything. > There's absolutely nothing wrong with canonicalizing immutable objects > in lisp (and many implementations in fact do so). No doubt. But I would consider broken an implementation which canonicalized 0.0 and not 1.0, for example. Juanma