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Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs


From: Dmitry Gutov
Subject: Re: Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs
Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 22:01:34 +0300
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On 05.05.2020 21:56, João Távora wrote:
There can be good reasons to have exceptions, exemptions, etc... but
they should be understood as that.  From this point of view, I think
it's hard to justify an exception for `multibyte-string-p`
Other than: it's there already: it's ingrained in code and programmers
minds.

I seriously doubt it's so ingrained in the minds: like Stefan said in the thread it was proposed in, this name is not so easy to recall, and one tends to try the `string-multibyte-p' variant first.



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