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bug#34873: 27.0.50; Creating unibyte string in emacs modules
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#34873: 27.0.50; Creating unibyte string in emacs modules |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Aug 2020 20:18:55 +0300 |
> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:13:36 -0400
> Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 34873@debbugs.gnu.org,
> lg.zevlg@gmail.com
>
> On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 at 12:57, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > > Does that mean that you think binary data should be stored only in
> > > vectors?
> >
> > Why would it mean that, I wonder?
>
> You said binary data is not the use case for unibyte strings and
> pointed to bindat.el instead. bindat.el uses unibyte strings or
> vectors for binary data.
>
> (NOT unibyte strings) AND (unibyte strings OR vectors) => vectors
I don't see how it follows. You are reading into what I wrote
something I didn't mean. The underlying implementation of bindat.el
doesn't matter much as long as bindat.el is used.