From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.tangents Subject: Re: (*) -> 1 Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 09:55:26 +0300 Message-ID: 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="20559"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.9+54 (af2080d) (2022-11-21) To: emacs-tangents@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-tangents-bounces+get-emacs-tangents=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 22 11:54:21 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 1pJXzR-00059Y-J0 for get-emacs-tangents@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:54:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pJXzF-0001zQ-06; Sun, 22 Jan 2023 05:54:09 -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 1pJUsp-0000jA-UX for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2023 02:35:19 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pJUso-0005bG-D3 for emacs-tangents@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Jan 2023 02:35:19 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.5.204]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000103840.0000000063CCE717.000022EF; Sun, 22 Jan 2023 00:34:46 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <875yczxkb8.fsf@dataswamp.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -17 X-Spam_score: -1.8 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SBL=0.141, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 05:54:05 -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:976 Archived-At: * Emanuel Berg [2023-01-22 08:55]: > Tassilo Horn 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" -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/