From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tangents Subject: Re: (*) -> 1 Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:56:43 +0100 Message-ID: <874jsig7mc.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87ilh28w9u.fsf@web.de> <87r0vqa67k.fsf@gnu.org> <87edrplgee.fsf@gnu.org> <87a62dl55j.fsf@gnu.org> <87y1pwqneb.fsf@gnu.org> <875yczxkb8.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40503"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: emacs-tangents@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:9MqMZNUkWzWfkW9bRyuFPtcrHUw= Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 22 12:49:57 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: get-emacs-tangents@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 1pJYrE-000AJS-2Z for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2023 12:49:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pJYr3-0002tZ-IX; Sun, 22 Jan 2023 06:49:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pJY1t-0002VQ-MV for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2023 05:56:53 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pJY1s-0004lx-3Y for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2023 05:56:53 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pJY1q-0008G8-4r for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:56:50 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-tangents@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 06:49:39 -0500 X-BeenThere: emacs-tangents@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs news and miscellaneous discussions outside the scope of other Emacs mailing lists List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.tangents:977 Archived-At: Jean Louis wrote: >>> In my book, it is useful to have mathematically sound >>> behavior by default. If you have a reason to handle some >>> edge-cases differently in some application (which is >>> totally possible!), then define your own function which >>> does what you wish. >> >> Your book? Actually I think a lot of people have it. > > Question is resolved. > > I have re-defined (*) → 1 to give me at least something > useful: > > (defun * () > "sex") > > (*) → "sex" The No. 1 thing to some people ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal