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From: | Chong Yidong |
Subject: | bug#13177: 24.3.50; doc of `read-char-by-name' |
Date: | Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:53:50 +0800 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.91 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes: >> The problem for me is that I don't know what the intention (design) >> was or why. Maybe someone has a good reason to return nil or to >> return a number that does not correspond to a recognized code point? > > It's called "read-char-by-name", so the intention is pretty clear: it > should return a char. Agreed. I changed read-char-by-name on the trunk to signal an error for invalid input. (This also avoids other wonky cases, e.g. entering ## giving the empty symbol because `read-char-by-name' uses `read'...)
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