From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: char-table-range Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:38:40 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200402160043.JAA17207@etlken.m17n.org> <200402160130.i1G1UKG04241@raven.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077148446 26573 80.91.224.253 (18 Feb 2004 23:54:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 23:54:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@m17n.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 19 00:53:59 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AtbVv-0001sh-00 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 00:53:59 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AtbVv-0001II-00 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 00:53:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AtbRT-0002MH-UQ for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:49:23 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AtbLn-0000Wj-H7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:43:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AtbHC-0007SA-MB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:39:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AtbHB-0007Rk-W2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:38:46 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AtbH6-0007WR-SX; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:38:40 -0500 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200402160130.i1G1UKG04241@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Sun, 15 Feb 2004 19:30:20 -0600 (CST)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20058 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20058 My own opinion would be to have char-table-range return the default value, except for ascii and eight-bit-{control,graphic} which do not have a default value. Is there any other convenient way to get the default value and always the default value? For instance, by using a generic character? If so, it would be better for char-table-range to signal an error than to return the default value. I did not realize that currently, for charsets different from ascii and eight-bit-{control,graphic}, char-table-range actually returns the entire range of values if the value is not uniform. That seems like a good thing for it to to.