From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rationale behind conversion of a nil prefix arg to numeric 1
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2016 22:02:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83shteb26t.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ed1411-dbc1-2fe1-5fe9-4fdc7a4d1b21@online.de> (message from Andreas Röhler on Mon, 5 Sep 2016 20:41:22 +0200)
> 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, 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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-05 19:02 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 [this message]
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
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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