From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org>
To: florian@fsavigny.de (Florian v. Savigny)
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rationale behind conversion of a nil prefix arg to numeric 1
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:47:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oa3p49ex.fsf@zigzag.favinet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y437c0qg.fsf@bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_40_000> (Florian v. Savigny's message of "Sun, 04 Sep 2016 14:23:35 +0200")
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() florian@fsavigny.de (Florian v. Savigny)
() Sun, 04 Sep 2016 14:23:35 +0200
but I am still wondering about the
rationale of representing nil as the number one.
When there is no question, the question is nil.
Emacs gives you a (singular) hand, anyway -- what a pal! :-D
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-15 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-04 12:23 Rationale behind conversion of a nil prefix arg to numeric 1 Florian v. Savigny
2016-09-04 14:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-04 17:11 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-09-04 18:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-05 7:16 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-09-05 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-05 15:22 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-09-05 16:32 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-05 18:41 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-09-05 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-06 7:10 ` tomas
2016-09-06 9:45 ` Florian v. Savigny
2016-09-06 10:27 ` tomas
2016-09-06 11:27 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-09-06 13:27 ` Florian v. Savigny
2016-09-06 15:22 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-06 14:20 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-09-06 16:44 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-09-06 16:41 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-09-07 23:11 ` Charles Millar
2016-09-08 13:10 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-09-08 14:42 ` Charles Millar
2016-09-08 15:40 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-06 7:22 ` Andreas Röhler
2016-09-05 17:04 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-05 21:39 ` Florian v. Savigny
[not found] ` <<877faqvxfp.fsf@bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_40_000>
2016-09-05 23:32 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-06 3:45 ` B.V. Raghav
2016-09-04 22:53 ` Florian v. Savigny
[not found] ` <<87d1kjjmys.fsf@bertrandrussell.Speedport_W_723V_1_40_000>
2016-09-05 0:52 ` Drew Adams
2016-09-15 12:47 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen [this message]
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