From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ls-lisp and remote files
Date: 13 Nov 2003 19:48:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5islo5cll.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <je1xsc16w5.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
> Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > Richard Stallman wrote:
> >
> >> The option should be designed so that there is a non-nil value meaning
> >> "numbers" and another non-nil value meaning "strings", so that we can
> >> someday change the meaning of nil.
> >
> > How about any number (e.g. 0) or any string (e.g. "")?
>
> Or maybe 'numberp and 'stringp.
The original proposal has the advantage that
(setq x (what-were-we-talking-about x))
will retain the type. Almost as easy would be to use the values
(type-of 0) and (type-of "")
(after evaluation, of course). There is no similarly straightforward
mapping from a number to 'numberp and a string to 'stringp AFAIR.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-13 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-30 20:06 ls-lisp and remote files Lars Hansen
2003-10-30 20:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-05 21:39 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-11-06 13:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-06 14:25 ` Lars Hansen
2003-11-08 2:16 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-09 21:29 ` Lars Hansen
2003-11-10 21:57 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-11 7:03 ` Lars Hansen
2003-11-12 2:29 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-12 10:41 ` Lars Hansen
2003-11-13 2:39 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-13 17:21 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-11-13 18:05 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-11-13 18:48 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2003-11-14 20:09 ` Richard Stallman
2003-11-14 10:36 ` Lars Hansen
2003-11-12 22:12 ` Kai Grossjohann
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