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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rationale behind conversion of a nil prefix arg to numeric 1
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 09:10:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160906071015.GB15537@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83shteb26t.fsf@gnu.org>

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On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 10:02:02PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> > From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@online.de>
> > Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 20:41:22 +0200
> > 
> > Leaving out the argument with uppercased P, it sends nil --correct-- 
> > whose numeric value is considered 1 again.
> > 
> > Understand it might be considered a feature, but think the caused 
> > inconsistency weights in more.
> 
> So you also disagree with nil meaning "the default value", do you?

Alternatively, for Andreas the axiom "the default value is always 0"
holds ;-P

(no offense meant, but I just couldn't... resist ;-)

regards
- -- t
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-06  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-04 12:23 Rationale behind conversion of a nil prefix arg to numeric 1 Florian v. Savigny
2016-09-04 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-04 17:11   ` Andreas Röhler
2016-09-04 18:33     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-05  7:16       ` Andreas Röhler
2016-09-05 14:56         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-05 15:22           ` Kaushal Modi
2016-09-05 16:32             ` Drew Adams
2016-09-05 18:41             ` Andreas Röhler
2016-09-05 19:02               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-06  7:10                 ` tomas [this message]
2016-09-06  9:45                   ` Florian v. Savigny
2016-09-06 10:27                     ` tomas
2016-09-06 11:27                     ` Andreas Röhler
2016-09-06 13:27                       ` Florian v. Savigny
2016-09-06 15:22                         ` Drew Adams
2016-09-06 14:20                       ` Kaushal Modi
2016-09-06 16:44                         ` Andreas Röhler
2016-09-06 16:41                           ` Kaushal Modi
2016-09-07 23:11                         ` Charles Millar
2016-09-08 13:10                           ` Kaushal Modi
2016-09-08 14:42                             ` Charles Millar
2016-09-08 15:40                           ` Drew Adams
2016-09-06  7:22                 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-09-05 17:04         ` Drew Adams
2016-09-05 21:39           ` Florian v. Savigny
     [not found]           ` <<877faqvxfp.fsf@bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_40_000>
2016-09-05 23:32             ` Drew Adams
2016-09-06  3:45               ` B.V. Raghav
2016-09-04 22:53   ` Florian v. Savigny
     [not found]   ` <<87d1kjjmys.fsf@bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_40_000>
2016-09-05  0:52     ` Drew Adams
2016-09-15 12:47 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen

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