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Re: Allow specifying services as symbols?
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Chong Yidong |
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Re: Allow specifying services as symbols? |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:20:55 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Davis Herring" <address@hidden> writes:
>> ! :service SERVICE -- SERVICE is name of the service desired (a string
>> ! or a symbol) or an integer specifying a port number to connect to. If
>> ! SERVICE is t, a random port number is selected for the server. (If
>> ! Emacs was compiled with getaddrinfo, a port number can also be
>> ! specified as a string, e.g. "http", as well as an integer. This is
>> ! not portable.)
>
> As more of a philosophical objection than anything, t is a symbol.
Hmm, good catch. So's nil.
So let's back up for a moment, here. Lars, could you provide an example
that shows why it's convenient to allow symbols to name services?
- Allow specifying services as symbols?, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/10/19
- Re: Allow specifying services as symbols?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/10/19
- Re: Allow specifying services as symbols?, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/10/19
- Re: Allow specifying services as symbols?, Davis Herring, 2010/10/19
- Re: Allow specifying services as symbols?,
Chong Yidong <=
- Re: Allow specifying services as symbols?, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/10/20
- Re: Allow specifying services as symbols?, Andreas Schwab, 2010/10/20
- Re: Allow specifying services as symbols?, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/10/20