From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is booleanp defined this way? Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 09:52:24 +0200 Message-ID: <87h9sd7u13.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87twwemaxx.fsf@debian.uxu> <138bf565-898d-4b5a-8bea-eecd223c652b@googlegroups.com> <87d2322li0.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429343577 21565 80.91.229.3 (18 Apr 2015 07:52:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 07:52:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 18 09:52:50 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YjNYW-0005kS-A2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 09:52:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44835 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjNYV-0004JM-Le for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 03:52:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39968) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjNYJ-0004JB-PZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 03:52:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjNYF-00078H-Qe for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 03:52:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([2a01:5e00:2:52::8]:56148) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjNYF-000786-Id for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 03:52:31 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3E9E4FA03B for ; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 09:52:30 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id TppYl3upnwOL for ; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 09:52:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (117-116.echostar.pl [213.156.117.116]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 76EC64F6079 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 09:52:28 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <87d2322li0.fsf@debian.uxu> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a01:5e00:2:52::8 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103810 Archived-At: On 2015-04-18, at 04:55, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Meanwhile, most university people don't get that > programming languages are tools that should be > employed to do useful things, not runes to be analyzed > like some Noam Chomsky/Indiana Jones would the > paleo-Etruscan from half-disintegrated tomb stones! I guess whether (a) this "most university people" stuff was some kind of irony towards me (and if yes, I guess it's mistaken: I'm just a student of Emacs, and a curious one, too, so I wanted to understand; in fact, Drew's answer was one of the very few on-topic ones! And what I'm actually doing is my "university stuff" is mathematical analysis/fixed point theory) and whether (b) this "half-disintegrated tomb stones" stuff was some kind of irony towards Emacs itself. ;-P Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University