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bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Jul 2018 05:41:38 +0300 |
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 17:50:46 -0700
> Cc: 32252@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > #x-1 maybe interesting to the read function but it's not interesting to
> > humans. Humans want to see #x3fffffffffffffff.
>
> I doubt very much that most humans really want to see an error-prone notation
> like that (can you easily spot the difference between it and
> #x3ffffffffffffffff? I can't).
I don't know if "most" is accurate, but I'm definitely in that camp.
As for counting the number of 'f's, how is that different from
counting leading zeros?
> And even if some humans did want it, they won't get it on 32-bit
> Emacs.
I don't see any problem: the user always knows in what Emacs she is
running.
> This whole idea is a bad approach for Emacs.
This bad approach was with us since about forever. It is a de-facto
correct behavior by now
- bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers, (continued)
- bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers, Helmut Eller, 2018/07/24
- bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers, Paul Eggert, 2018/07/24
- bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers, Andreas Schwab, 2018/07/24
- bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers, Helmut Eller, 2018/07/24
- bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers, Paul Eggert, 2018/07/24
- bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers, Paul Eggert, 2018/07/25
- bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/07/25
- bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers, Paul Eggert, 2018/07/26
- bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers, Helmut Eller, 2018/07/26
- bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers, Paul Eggert, 2018/07/26
- bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers, Helmut Eller, 2018/07/25
- bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers, Paul Eggert, 2018/07/26
- bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers, Helmut Eller, 2018/07/26
- bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers, Paul Eggert, 2018/07/26
- bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers, Helmut Eller, 2018/07/26