Re: evaluating numbers

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Characters are just integers in Emacs.
> I know that. You're not really answering the above question. When people
> expect a character to be returned, they expect a character and not
> a code point.

Emacs can't know what the user expects.

> How useful is:
> (decode-char 'emacs 345)
> 345 (#o531, #x159)

And the code that displays "345 (#o531, #x159)" doesn't know that this
345 is coming out of a function which is expected to return characters.
All it knows is that it has to print the integer 345.


        Stefan