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bug#44155: Print integers as characters
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#44155: Print integers as characters |
Date: |
Sun, 25 Oct 2020 21:53:53 +0200 |
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, 44155@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 21:09:07 +0200
>
> > And, btw, why not allow raw bytes here as well? is there some problem?
>
> Because of ambiguity, both these return the same value:
>
> (read (concat "?" (string 128))) => 128
> (read (concat "?" (string 4194176))) => 128
And why is that a problem?
Alternatively, we could print raw bytes in some special way. But not
treating them as characters sounds some subtlety that will be hard to
explain.
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- bug#44155: Print integers as characters,
Eli Zaretskii <=
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