From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/81817 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Odd formatting Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:48:00 +0200 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: 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 1335769704 10877 80.91.229.3 (30 Apr 2012 07:08:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:08:24 +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 09:08:23 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 1SOkic-0006ZE-OZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:08:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46177 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOkib-0004vZ-SN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:08:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49487) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOkiW-0004v6-0n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:08:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOkiR-0003RB-Kj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:08:15 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54892) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SOkiR-0003R6-EP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:08:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SOkiJ-0006Jw-7O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:08:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 62.113.137.5 ([62.113.137.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:08:03 +0200 Original-Received: from sb by 62.113.137.5 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:08:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.113.137.5 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130004 (Ma Gnus v0.4) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:83ZoVLVepzHFeNWBpHGIYwgfKw8= 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:150149 gmane.emacs.gnus.general:81817 Archived-At: >>>>> 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.