From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81820 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Antoine Levitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Odd formatting Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:14:10 +0200 Message-ID: <877gwxzfv1.fsf@gmail.com> References: <83d36wfcf1.fsf@gnu.org> <834ns7g9r8.fsf@gnu.org> <83zk9xheam.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335780892 26949 80.91.229.3 (30 Apr 2012 10:14:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:14:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 30 12:14:52 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SOnd4-00025f-B3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:14:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51678 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOnd3-0004yC-Li for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:14:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57073) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOncx-0004xw-SB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:14:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOncs-0001yM-I3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:14:43 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34784) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOncs-0001xK-BR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:14:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SOnco-0001qD-1Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:14:34 +0200 Original-Received: from portable42.ceremade.dauphine.fr ([193.48.71.42]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:14:34 +0200 Original-Received: from antoine.levitt by portable42.ceremade.dauphine.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:14:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Followup-To: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: portable42.ceremade.dauphine.fr Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150152 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81820 Archived-At: 30/04/12 09:48, Steinar Bang >>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen : > >> Totally off topic, I was looking at how strange your messages are >> rendering and wondering whether the mail reader was interpreting your >> messages incorrectly or something. But here's the (sort of) raw source >> of that text: > >>
I agree with you. Fortunately that's not what I'm arguing. I'm arguing that
for a very specific corner of the type system, we merge two separate
>>
meanings of nil. I'm arguing that the empty string as it is used today is,
for all intents, just another nil. So it should not signal an error if they are
treated the same.
> >> (This is the text/html part of the multipart message you send.) > > Note that the text/plain version of the message is foramatted exactly > like the bit you quoted. Looks like he's writing his email in emacs, with emacs wrapping, and then pasting it into gmail, which then adds further (and different) wrapping. Not much gnus can do, I think.