From: Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is 't' positive?
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:11:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87slb5kd1l.fsf@voyager.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1989.1176377828.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
> Quite a few commands require positive arguments such as ido-mode.
>
> ,----
> | (ido-mode &optional arg)
> |
> | Toggle ido speed-ups on or off.
> | With arg, turn ido speed-up on if arg is positive, off otherwise.
> `----
>
> However, it seems legal to use 't' and they will behave like it is
> positive. So the question, is 't' positive? Is it safe to use 't' in
> this kind of functions?
Depends on the function. t may have a different meaning than 1, and
nil than 0...
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__Pascal Bourguignon__
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2007-04-12 12:08 ` Is 't' positive? Johan Bockgård
2007-04-12 12:45 ` Leo
2007-04-12 12:11 ` Pascal Bourguignon [this message]
2007-04-12 11:28 Leo
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