From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org, eliz@gnu.org,
eggert@cs.ucla.edu, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: evaluating numbers
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 01:08:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1iWwgQ-0004Gc-Jy@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2h832p8zp.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Robert Pluim on Sun, 17 Nov 2019 21:02:02 +0100)
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> We could just as easily enclose the name in quotes.
That might complicate Lisp mode parsing of Lisp code, if we give more
meanings to quotes. For instance, if we want the \N syntax to be used
inside a string constant, using doublequotes for this would cause complicaions.
Using singlequotes would cause other complications.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
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Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-07 9:43 evaluating numbers Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-07 9:57 ` Stephen Berman
2019-11-07 10:20 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-07 10:30 ` Stephen Berman
2019-11-07 10:40 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-07 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-08 0:36 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-08 10:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-08 12:23 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-08 13:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-09 0:20 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-09 7:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-08 13:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-09 0:15 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-09 7:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-09 11:18 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-09 11:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-10 0:59 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-10 8:06 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-11-10 20:52 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-12 20:28 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-12 22:05 ` Drew Adams
2019-11-12 22:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-12 23:30 ` Drew Adams
2019-11-13 8:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-13 14:47 ` Drew Adams
2019-11-14 12:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 22:50 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-14 23:40 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-11-15 8:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 9:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 9:46 ` Yuri Khan
2019-11-14 11:36 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-14 13:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-14 13:59 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-11-14 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-14 21:44 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-11-14 14:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-11-14 14:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 17:10 ` Paul Eggert
2019-11-14 18:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 8:32 ` Štěpán Němec
2019-11-15 14:54 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 15:55 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 16:00 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 16:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-15 16:33 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-17 2:15 ` Richard Stallman
2019-11-17 20:02 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-18 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-18 16:54 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-18 17:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-20 13:00 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-20 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-20 17:09 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-20 17:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-19 6:08 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2019-11-19 9:50 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 15:53 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 16:43 ` Robert Pluim
2019-11-15 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-16 20:40 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-17 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-17 21:16 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-14 22:56 ` Juri Linkov
2019-11-09 16:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-10 0:22 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-10 4:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-13 23:02 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-14 13:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-14 9:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-14 11:35 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-14 13:37 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-11-14 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-15 10:36 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2019-11-15 13:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-28 14:52 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-04-28 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-28 17:28 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-28 23:16 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-04-29 0:08 ` Paul Eggert
2020-04-29 0:21 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-04-29 7:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-29 8:00 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-04-29 3:23 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-29 3:49 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-04-29 3:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-29 10:09 ` Po Lu
2020-04-30 2:34 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-30 3:04 ` Stefan Monnier
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