Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 a9c48d5: Additional fixes for file notification

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> First time I see it mentioned in this context.  Why/where do you use it?

I use it everywhere I want to check whether something is larger than
zero...

> The only place where it seems to make sense is in #'plusp (since
> otherwise (> x 0) is actually more concise&efficient&precise than (plusp
> x) which is my mind suffers from the annoying "is 0 positive?" issue),
> but "grep" seems to indicate that's not used anywhere within Emacs (nor
> GNU ELPA).

That's because I always change it to (if (> foo 0) ..) after first
writing (if (plusp foo) ...).  :-)

Try 

grep --color -nH -e "(>.*\b0\b" `find . -name '*.el'`

instead.

As for concise...  sure, in characters.  But not in meaning.  If I'm
reading code, I'm reading "if that is bigger than... zero!" instead of
immediately getting that it's a check for positivity.

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