From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: deego3@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fixing numerous `message' bugs..
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:24:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85fxyel8o8.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1J0gpt-0000Ru-2k@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:18:01 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Here's an idea: make up an argument to `message' that says treat the
> next argument literally. How about t?
>
> (message t STRING) is equivalent to (message "%s" STRING)
> (message t nil) is equivalent to (message nil)
>
> So in the cases that are buggy it suffices to add t as the first argument.
I don't particularly like it. What about (message t nil 7), what is
that supposed to return? nil too? Anyway, there is little point to
make this specific to message. So if at all, we would special-case
format instead. Which means that (stringp (format ...)) is no longer
guaranteed to be true.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-07 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-06 0:14 Fixing numerous `message' bugs D. Goel
2007-12-06 10:56 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-06 14:36 ` Dave Goel
2007-12-06 19:26 ` Glenn Morris
2007-12-06 19:34 ` Dave Goel
2007-12-06 20:21 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-12-07 5:28 ` Glenn Morris
2007-12-07 15:52 ` Dave Goel
2007-12-06 15:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-06 16:01 ` Dave Goel
2007-12-06 16:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-06 16:58 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-06 17:19 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-07 17:17 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-07 17:37 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-07 17:17 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-07 17:18 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-07 17:24 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-12-07 18:00 ` Dave Goel
2007-12-07 18:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-08 0:56 ` Glenn Morris
2007-12-08 2:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-08 10:55 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-08 19:15 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-10 17:41 ` Dave Goel
2007-12-10 18:04 ` Jason Rumney
2007-12-10 19:05 ` Dave Goel
2007-12-10 19:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-12-10 20:31 ` Dave Goel
2007-12-10 21:19 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-10 22:44 ` Dave Goel
2007-12-10 23:02 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-08 19:15 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-07 17:18 ` Richard Stallman
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