From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:45:43 +0200 Message-ID: References: <83d36wfcf1.fsf@gnu.org> <834ns7g9r8.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335372366 523 80.91.229.3 (25 Apr 2012 16:46:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:46:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , steve.yegge@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 25 18:46:05 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SN5Lw-0004IS-RI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:46:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43352 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SN5Lv-0005o8-VU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:46:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51785) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SN5Lo-0005mr-TM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:46:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SN5Ln-0008T6-BZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:45:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:58758) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SN5Lg-0008RU-88; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:45:48 -0400 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3Vd6jM694pz4Kh24; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:45:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-111-104.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.111.104]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3Vd6jM5ZsTz4KK5G; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:45:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id 5E5BECA29F; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:45:43 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: Oh, FISH sticks, CHEEZ WHIZ, GIN fizz, SHOW BIZ!! In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:30:01 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Received-From: 212.18.0.9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150012 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > E.g. like (concat "23" nil "45") does. That's not a good example since concat explicitly accepts lists as arguments. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."