Re: get-byte

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Ah!  How about something like this?
>> 
>> (defun get-byte (pos &optional string)
>> "Return a byte at position POS of the current buffer..
>> If POS is nil, it defaults to point.
>> If the second optional arg STRING is non-nil, return a byte in
>> STRING at index POS.
>> An error is signaled if the character at POS is not ASCII
>> nor eight-bit character."
>> ...)

> Yes, that's what I had in mind.

It really seems to me that encode-char is a better solution.  More to
the point it's the most natural and flexible solution.  E.g. it's
trivial to write get-byte using encode-char, whereas it's much less
trivial to write encode-char with get-byte.


        Stefan