Re: Allow specifying services as symbols?

[Chong Yidong]

"Davis Herring" <address@hidden> writes:

>> ! :service SERVICE -- SERVICE is name of the service desired (a string
>> ! or a symbol) or an integer specifying a port number to connect to.  If
>> ! SERVICE is t, a random port number is selected for the server.  (If
>> ! Emacs was compiled with getaddrinfo, a port number can also be
>> ! specified as a string, e.g. "http", as well as an integer.  This is
>> ! not portable.)
>
> As more of a philosophical objection than anything, t is a symbol.

Hmm, good catch.  So's nil.

So let's back up for a moment, here.  Lars, could you provide an example
that shows why it's convenient to allow symbols to name services?