From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.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 09:22:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cc8ada7f-e719-093f-1fd9-4cde4e774bda@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83shteb26t.fsf@gnu.org>
On 05.09.2016 21:02, 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?
> Because, according to you, nil cannot possibly stand for any value but
> zero,
At least if something supposed the a "numeric argument". Sure, that
might be translated. But than that default should be mentioned when the
form is introduced.
> without risking to be "inconsistent", is that right?
>
> But if you do accept that nil can stand for the default value, why
> cannot you accept that in the case of repeat count it stands for 1,
> i.e. that 1 is the default value in this context?
>
I can accept that and live with it. Just thought current state is not
the best we can have.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-06 7:22 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
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 [this message]
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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