From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (copy-marker nil)
Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 18:06:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlgcs8mx2.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7f6fd0c6-f613-9388-10e6-5ca5544d25ae@easy-emacs.de
> Well, zero here is a special case.
No. You can try it with many other "out of bounds" integers.
> But copying a marker out of nil seems not logically.
It works just as well as (move-marker m nil) and for the same reasons.
A marker *can* point to "nothing" and it's an important property.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-12 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-07 8:19 (copy-marker nil) Andreas Röhler
2018-05-07 13:39 ` John Mastro
2018-05-07 14:23 ` Andreas Röhler
2018-05-07 13:55 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-05-07 14:20 ` Andreas Röhler
2018-05-07 14:26 ` Drew Adams
2018-05-07 17:16 ` Andreas Röhler
2018-05-08 1:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-08 8:44 ` Andreas Röhler
2018-05-12 22:06 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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