From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: struct.el -- a package to encode/decode binary data Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 19:36:40 -0700 (MST) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200203230236.g2N2ae302010@aztec.santafe.edu> References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016851663 19755 127.0.0.1 (23 Mar 2002 02:47:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 02:47:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: storm@cua.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16obZH-00058W-00 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 03:47:43 +0100 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16obgD-0001VY-00 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 03:54:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16obZA-0005iS-00; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:47:36 -0500 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16obOv-00056R-00; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 21:37:01 -0500 Original-Received: from aztec.santafe.edu (aztec [192.12.12.49]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g2N2aea00344; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 19:36:40 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by aztec.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g2N2ae302010; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 19:36:40 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f Original-To: eliz@is.elta.co.il In-Reply-To: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Thu, 21 Mar 2002 13:15:52 +0200 (IST)) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:2149 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:2149 IMO, unibyte strings should not be used unless absolutely necessary, ideally never. There is nothing bad about unibyte strings. As long as Emacs has unibyte buffers, unibyte strings are natural and add very little extra complexity. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel