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Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:41:11 +0900 |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> AFAIK he's not suggesting to change that. He's only suggesting that
> instead of throwing an error some functions should behave as if they had
> received an empty string. E.g. like (concat "23" nil "45") does.
Also kinda like the old "strlen (NULL) => 0" behavior (and generally,
derefencing a pointer => 0)...
Which was (1) sort of handy in some cases, and (2) really good at
hiding bugs...
-miles
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- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Miles Bader, 2012/04/25
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Helmut Eller, 2012/04/25
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/04/25
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Stefan Monnier, 2012/04/25
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/04/25
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Stefan Monnier, 2012/04/25
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y,
Miles Bader <=
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- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Miles Bader, 2012/04/26
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Steve Yegge, 2012/04/26
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Miles Bader, 2012/04/26
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