From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Rationale behind conversion of a nil prefix arg to numeric 1 Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:47:18 +0200 Message-ID: <87oa3p49ex.fsf@zigzag.favinet> References: <87y437c0qg.fsf@bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_40_000> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1473944471 17181 195.159.176.226 (15 Sep 2016 13:01:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 13:01:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: florian@fsavigny.de (Florian v. Savigny) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 15 15:01:02 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 1bkWHb-0002Df-Ng for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 15:00:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34389 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkWHZ-0004yU-Qe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 09:00:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51615) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkWCc-0001Vm-Ti for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 08:55:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkWCX-0005xS-BR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 08:55:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.agora-net.com ([67.59.132.6]:35816) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkWCX-0005vS-6y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 08:55:37 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by mail.agora-net.com with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bkWCP-0006cu-CN; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 08:55:29 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by zigzag.favinet with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1bkW4c-00014I-Ig; Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:47:26 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87y437c0qg.fsf@bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_40_000> (Florian v. Savigny's message of "Sun, 04 Sep 2016 14:23:35 +0200") X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ttn@gnuvola.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on mail.agora-net.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 67.59.132.6 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:111343 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable () florian@fsavigny.de (Florian v. Savigny) () Sun, 04 Sep 2016 14:23:35 +0200 but I am still wondering about the rationale of representing nil as the number one. When there is no question, the question is nil. Emacs gives you a (singular) hand, anyway -- what a pal! :-D =2D-=20 Thien-Thi Nguyen ----------------------------------------------- (defun responsep (type via) (case type (technical (eq 'mailing-list via)) ...)) 748E A0E8 1CB8 A748 9BFA =2D-------------------------------------- 6CE4 6703 2224 4C80 7502 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlfamFgACgkQZwMiJEyAdQJcFgCgkwyyouHSwmeD76ZPU6epSyzR /gkAoJ1I/z2a9jWkWenqclN6zOK2ogbb =Ue4A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--