From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 38938@debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: bug#38938: [PROPOSED] Prefer Lisp integers to numeric strings in IMAP
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 12:17:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eemwrbux.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k166waec.fsf@hase.home> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Sun, 05 Jan 2020 09:54:51 +0100")
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> On Jan 04 2020, Paul Eggert wrote:
>
>> Since Emacs has bignums now, it can represent IMAP integers
>> directly rather than as numeric strings.
>> * lisp/gnus/gnus-cus.el (gnus-extra-group-parameters):
>> * lisp/gnus/nnimap.el (nnimap-transform-headers)
>> (nnimap-convert-partial-article, nnimap-request-list)
>> (nnimap-parse-flags, nnimap-transform-split-mail):
>> * lisp/net/imap.el (imap-parse-resp-text-code)
>> (imap-parse-status):
>> Use Lisp integers to represent IMAP integers.
>
> This breaks backward and forward compatibility.
Yeah, so while it'd be better to use integers here, I don't think it's
workable, and I'm closing this bug report.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-20 10:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-05 3:20 bug#38938: [PROPOSED] Prefer Lisp integers to numeric strings in IMAP Paul Eggert
2020-01-05 8:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-09-20 10:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-09-20 17:04 ` Andy Moreton
2020-09-20 19:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-13 17:27 ` Paul Eggert
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