Re: [Q] Should `string' accept integers?

Sunday, 10 May 1998


        Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; writes:

...
> [...] Oh, the comment in `concat' is wrong:
> 
> (concat 65 65)
> => "6565" 
...
 This is the hysterical behaviour, yes.  What comment are you
referring 
 to? 
C-h f concat
 ...
Do not use individual integers as arguments!
The behavior of `concat' in that case will be changed later!
If your program passes an integer as an argument to `concat',
you should change it right away not to do so.

...
> Well, make `string' consistent.
> 
> (string 65)
> => "65" 
...
 Yuck.  I don't think we want to do anything like this.  FSFmacs
 doesn't do it. 
...
 (string 65)
   => "A" 
If (concat 65 65) returns "6565", clearly (string 65) should return
"65".  One of them needs to be fixed to be consistent.  I rather like
the behavior of concat. :-)

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