From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why does using aset sometimes output raw bytes?
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2018 18:20:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871s6qobvm.fsf@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv7egi4oh8.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 09 Dec 2018 12:10:00 -0500")
On Sun, 09 Dec 2018 12:10:00 -0500 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> When I use aset to change characters in a string
>
> I recommend you don't do that unless it's *really* indispensable.
>
>> (insert (aset "aous" i (aref "äöüß" i)))
>
> I also recommend you don't use the return value of `aset`.
I don't have a use case where using aset like this is indispensable, I
was just experimenting. Are your reservations because the
implementation of aset is brittle, leading to things like the
observations I reported -- maybe too hard to fix and not worth the
trouble? Or are there other reasons not to use aset as above?
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-09 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-09 15:16 Why does using aset sometimes output raw bytes? Stephen Berman
2018-12-09 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-09 15:46 ` Stephen Berman
2018-12-09 15:56 ` Stephen Berman
2018-12-09 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-09 17:32 ` Stephen Berman
2018-12-09 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-09 18:50 ` Stephen Berman
2018-12-09 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-09 17:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-12-09 17:20 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2018-12-09 19:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-12-09 20:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-09 21:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-12-10 5:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-10 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-12-09 20:43 ` Stephen Berman
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