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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: point-min and 1
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:03:27 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877hx8hby8.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ljlpj5im.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:39:29 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> IMHO writing `(goto-char 1)' is bad style because it exhibits a low
>> level detail of Elisp implementation, namely that it sees buffer
>> positions as numbers counted from 1.
>
> OTOH, replacing a constant with a function call might make a
> difference.

(point-min) has its own byte-code, so it's essentially the same speed as
a constant.

-miles

-- 
Any man who is a triangle, has thee right, when in Cartesian Space,
to have angles, which when summed, come to know more, nor no less,
than nine score degrees, should he so wish.  [TEMPLE OV THEE LEMUR]




  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-12 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1Macea-0002f3-HQ@monty-python.gnu.org>
2009-08-11  3:07 ` point-min and 1 Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-11  9:18   ` martin rudalics
2009-08-11 18:22     ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-12  8:55       ` martin rudalics
2009-08-12 17:39         ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-12 23:03           ` Miles Bader [this message]
2009-08-13  0:13           ` Daniel Colascione
2009-08-13  9:52           ` martin rudalics
2009-08-13 16:49             ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-13 18:08               ` martin rudalics
2009-08-13 21:28                 ` Chong Yidong
2009-08-13 23:21                 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-14  7:16                   ` martin rudalics
2009-08-14  9:30                     ` David Kastrup
2009-08-14  9:50                       ` martin rudalics
2009-08-14  9:55                       ` Miles Bader
2009-08-14  1:29                 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-14  7:15                   ` martin rudalics
2009-08-14  8:44                     ` David Kastrup
2009-08-14  9:50                       ` martin rudalics
2009-08-11 15:13   ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-11 18:32     ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-13  2:22       ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-13  4:38         ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-13  9:53         ` martin rudalics
2009-08-13 12:38           ` David Kastrup
2009-08-13 14:40             ` martin rudalics
2009-08-13 16:48           ` Stefan Monnier

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