From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: evaluating numbers Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 01:08:14 -0500 Message-ID: References: <3C929D7B-1C10-4713-9EDA-55C80FC36AD8@traduction-libre.org> <835zjvg385.fsf@gnu.org> <83sgmyd6rw.fsf@gnu.org> <835zjucwbz.fsf@gnu.org> <628A3663-BDD3-47C5-B4F4-E260FD900691@traduction-libre.org> <83o8xla50f.fsf@gnu.org> <8336ex9sow.fsf@gnu.org> <4836980E-C425-466C-BB86-5E962C4B3F96@traduction-libre.org> <83zhgy7qxq.fsf@gnu.org> <83lfsi5z1s.fsf@gnu.org> <83imnm480f.fsf@gnu.org> <834kz52mqx.fsf@gnu.org> <8336ep2m17.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="236567"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org, eliz@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, yuri.v.khan@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 19 07:09:18 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iWwhS-000zNc-2T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 07:09:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41952 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iWwhQ-0000EW-3p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 01:09:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57610) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iWwgS-0000Dz-H6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 01:08:21 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41094) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iWwgR-0003JC-Rc; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 01:08:15 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iWwgQ-0004Gc-Jy; Tue, 19 Nov 2019 01:08:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Robert Pluim on Sun, 17 Nov 2019 21:02:02 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:242409 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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 Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)