From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: byte-to-string
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:28:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtyjay4dt.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oc9jepw1.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:50:06 -0500")
> What's the purpose of the new byte-to-string function? I'm trying to
> document it, but the docstring is uninformative about what it can be
> used for.
IIUC it's the equivalent of unibyte-string (i.e. it interprets its
128-255 arguments as bytes rather than latin-1 chars).
> Also, if the integer argument is supposed to be a byte, shouldn't it be
> error to give it something larger than 255?
I think so, yes.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-21 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-20 19:50 byte-to-string Chong Yidong
2010-11-20 20:12 ` byte-to-string Harald Hanche-Olsen
2010-11-21 17:28 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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