From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Invalid read syntax for compiled bool vector Date: 27 Apr 2004 14:52:35 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <85k70cbeil.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> <857jw35hcq.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> <85u0z64onq.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083072574 22958 80.91.224.253 (27 Apr 2004 13:29:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:29:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lars Brinkhoff , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 27 15:28:57 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BISdt-0004Tq-00 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:28:57 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BISdt-0006dq-00 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:28:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BISYZ-0004NB-Gv for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:23:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BISXF-00040C-H1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:22:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BISWi-0003rS-4R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:22:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BIS4q-0006PF-Dw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 08:52:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BIS2j-0006Gk-5F; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 08:50:33 -0400 Original-To: Andreas Schwab In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22237 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22237 Andreas Schwab writes: > David Kastrup writes: > > > I think that hexadecimal notation would be quite more compact, without > > a loss of generality and (probably unimportant) readability. > > If you use hexadecimal notation then the reader will force the string to > multibyte, with octal notation it is forced to unibyte. The process of > converting a unibyte string to multibyte will change characters in the > range 0x80..0x9f. Maybe the bool vector reader should just force the > string back to unibyte. Ah, uh, ok. Just forget it, then. Looks like I did not know what I was talking about. Not that this happens too rarely... -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum