From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Rationale behind conversion of a nil prefix arg to numeric 1 Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 09:10:15 +0200 Message-ID: <20160906071015.GB15537@tuxteam.de> References: <87y437c0qg.fsf@bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_40_000> <83oa43d9r8.fsf@gnu.org> <06d4a7f1-f116-fb5c-9bd2-c4d1f98934c9@easy-emacs.de> <83k2ercy5u.fsf@gnu.org> <83bn02cs54.fsf@gnu.org> <83ed1411-dbc1-2fe1-5fe9-4fdc7a4d1b21@online.de> <83shteb26t.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1473145868 30253 195.159.176.226 (6 Sep 2016 07:11:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 07:11:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 06 09:11:04 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bhAX5-0006tq-4W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2016 09:10:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59528 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bhAX2-00046Y-O3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2016 03:10:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60572) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bhAWZ-000465-FQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2016 03:10:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bhAWW-00046L-6X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2016 03:10:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:58879 helo=tomasium.tuxteam.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bhAWW-00045n-0I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2016 03:10:24 -0400 Original-Received: from tomas by tomasium.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1bhAWN-0004C5-Bh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2016 09:10:15 +0200 In-Reply-To: <83shteb26t.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111278 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 10:02:02PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Cc: Eli Zaretskii > > From: Andreas Röhler > > 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlfOa9cACgkQBcgs9XrR2kaU1gCeNN4AKiZGn5fvhGLgBcwpYX43 exEAnjSe6SGxVEY6E4RsiMV5lW53Ryyp =T1bW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----