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Re: evaluating numbers
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: evaluating numbers |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:20:21 +0200 |
> From: Jean-Christophe Helary <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 20:35:17 +0900
>
> > It's neither, because characters are integers in Emacs, and a
> > character is identical to its codepoint.
>
> How can I understand that ?
By reading the documentation, of course.
> I mean, what part of the documentation, or the code, or anything, is there to
> help people grasp this notion ?
ELisp section "String and Character Basics":
A character is a Lisp object which represents a single character of
text. In Emacs Lisp, characters are simply integers; whether an integer
is a character or not is determined only by how it is used. *Note
Character Codes::, for details about character representation in Emacs.
And the cross-reference leads you to a much more detailed description
of these issues.
- Re: evaluating numbers, (continued)
- Re: evaluating numbers, Juri Linkov, 2019/11/17
- Re: evaluating numbers, Juri Linkov, 2019/11/14
- Re: evaluating numbers, Stefan Monnier, 2019/11/09
- Re: evaluating numbers, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2019/11/09
- Re: evaluating numbers, Stefan Monnier, 2019/11/09
- Re: evaluating numbers, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2019/11/13
- Re: evaluating numbers, Stefan Monnier, 2019/11/14
- Re: evaluating numbers, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/14
- Re: evaluating numbers, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2019/11/14
- Re: evaluating numbers, Noam Postavsky, 2019/11/14
- Re: evaluating numbers,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: evaluating numbers, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2019/11/15
- Re: evaluating numbers, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/15