* byte-to-string
@ 2010-11-20 19:50 Chong Yidong
2010-11-20 20:12 ` byte-to-string Harald Hanche-Olsen
2010-11-21 17:28 ` byte-to-string Stefan Monnier
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From: Chong Yidong @ 2010-11-20 19:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: emacs-devel
What's the purpose of the new byte-to-string function? I'm trying to
document it, but the docstring is uninformative about what it can be
used for.
Also, if the integer argument is supposed to be a byte, shouldn't it be
error to give it something larger than 255? Instead the function
returns something, but I have no idea what that string represents.
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* Re: byte-to-string
2010-11-20 19:50 byte-to-string Chong Yidong
@ 2010-11-20 20:12 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2010-11-21 17:28 ` byte-to-string Stefan Monnier
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From: Harald Hanche-Olsen @ 2010-11-20 20:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
+ Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>:
> Also, if the integer argument is supposed to be a byte, shouldn't it be
> error to give it something larger than 255? Instead the function
> returns something, but I have no idea what that string represents.
A bit of experimentation reveals that (byte-to-string n) returns the
same as (byte-to-string (mod n 256)). Maybe that is useful, I don't
know.
- Harald
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* Re: byte-to-string
2010-11-20 19:50 byte-to-string Chong Yidong
2010-11-20 20:12 ` byte-to-string Harald Hanche-Olsen
@ 2010-11-21 17:28 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Stefan Monnier @ 2010-11-21 17:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chong Yidong; +Cc: emacs-devel
> What's the purpose of the new byte-to-string function? I'm trying to
> document it, but the docstring is uninformative about what it can be
> used for.
IIUC it's the equivalent of unibyte-string (i.e. it interprets its
128-255 arguments as bytes rather than latin-1 chars).
> Also, if the integer argument is supposed to be a byte, shouldn't it be
> error to give it something larger than 255?
I think so, yes.
Stefan
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