bug#38938: [PROPOSED] Prefer Lisp integers to numeric strings in IMAP

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> On Jan 04 2020, Paul Eggert wrote:
>
>> Since Emacs has bignums now, it can represent IMAP integers
>> directly rather than as numeric strings.
>> * lisp/gnus/gnus-cus.el (gnus-extra-group-parameters):
>> * lisp/gnus/nnimap.el (nnimap-transform-headers)
>> (nnimap-convert-partial-article, nnimap-request-list)
>> (nnimap-parse-flags, nnimap-transform-split-mail):
>> * lisp/net/imap.el (imap-parse-resp-text-code)
>> (imap-parse-status):
>> Use Lisp integers to represent IMAP integers.
>
> This breaks backward and forward compatibility.

Yeah, so while it'd be better to use integers here, I don't think it's
workable, and I'm closing this bug report.

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