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Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:22:58 +0300 |
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:24:57 -0700
> From: Steve Yegge <address@hidden>
>
> I think we should change all the core string-manipulation functions to deal
> gracefully with nil arguments. Specifically, I want to change the smallest
> set of functions that may originate the infamous "wrong-type-argument
> (stringp, nil)" error, making them instead treat nil as if it were the
> empty string.
I'm quite sure this will break gobs of existing code in Emacs. The
entire display engine, for starters.
- proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Steve Yegge, 2012/04/25
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Karl Fogel, 2012/04/25
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Miles Bader, 2012/04/25
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Helmut Eller, 2012/04/25
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Stefan Monnier, 2012/04/25
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/04/25
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Stefan Monnier, 2012/04/25
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Miles Bader, 2012/04/25
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Andreas Schwab, 2012/04/25
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Juanma Barranquero, 2012/04/25
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Steve Yegge, 2012/04/26
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Miles Bader, 2012/04/26
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Steve Yegge, 2012/04/26
- Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y, Miles Bader, 2012/04/26