Re: Internationalize Emacs's messages (swahili)

[Tomas Hlavaty]

On Sun 27 Dec 2020 at 18:17, "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> wrote:
> If (> (length foo) 10) is bad or not depends entierly on its context.

(> (length foo) 10)

uselessly counts (max 0 (- (length foo) 10)) items (+/- off by one
error?)

(length> foo 10)

uselessly counts 0 items

>    > then one should definitly not be introducing something like
>    > length= as a means to evade it, since both those forms are to be
>    > avoided.
>
>    Why?
>
> If foo is a list, then you should use null.  If foo is a string, you
> should use string-empty-p.  If foo is some other, you should use that.

I do not use anything.

The bad code _is already_ in Emacs.

For new code, suggestions are nice, but will likely not bear much
fruits.

Also (if (null foo) ...) is ugly, (if foo ...) is much nicer.