From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/69795 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: The adaptive score alist variables. Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:13:26 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87k4p7w6yx.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87iq4w3o5o.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278522827 14857 80.91.229.12 (7 Jul 2010 17:13:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 17:13:47 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M18185@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jul 07 19:13:46 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWYBt-0002Sm-5E for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:13:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OWYBn-0008Na-30; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:13:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1OWYBm-0008NO-0F for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:13:38 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OWYBl-0006bY-6u for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:13:37 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1OWYBk-0006ih-00 for ; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:13:36 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWYBh-0002Lj-Qj for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:13:33 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:13:33 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:13:33 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ClQgyl6/5zRi9UzNY0u4WXk+zH0= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69795 Archived-At: On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:33:39 +0200 Štěpán Němec wrote: ŠN> Is this difference (symbols in one case, values in the other case) ŠN> significant? If so, that looks like a horrible design. Looks like larsi did it (last related edits were in 1997), though I don't know why. Maybe it was for performance reasons. ŠN> Also, why should I have to evaluate the mark symbols to actually get ŠN> to know their numeric values and be able to adjust the word score ŠN> alist? (I understand the marks are character values, but the ŠN> correspondence is not obvious, esp. when `describe-variable' gives ŠN> you the numeric values.) You shouldn't have to, normally. Maybe it just wasn't meant as a long-term solution. Sorry I don't know more. Ted