Re: itimer.el calls concat with integer arg

Friday, 29 May 1998

        Sudish Joseph <sj(a)eng.mindspring.net&gt; writes:

...
 In XEmacs 21.0 "Saanen" [Lucid] (sparc-sun-solaris2.6,
Mule) of Fri May 22 1998 on ra

 `activate-itimer' calls concat with an integer argument in 21.0-b40.  The
 `concat' docs say this is no longer permitted.  This caused an error in
 Gnus which uses timers for it's asynch article readahead. 
  You could save some string creation by doing something like this instead,
right?  String creation bad bad bad.

(setq name (format "<%d>" num))

-Bill P.

...
 --- xemacs-21.0-b40/lisp/itimer.el~	Fri May 29 14:09:57 1998
 +++ xemacs-21.0-b40/lisp/itimer.el	Fri May 29 14:09:57 1998
 ＠＠ -395,7 +395,7 ＠＠
  	    (oname "itimer-")
  	    (num 1))
  	(while (get-itimer name)
 -	  (setq name (concat oname "<" num ">"))
 +	  (setq name (concat oname "<" (format "%d" num)
">"))
  	  (itimer-increment num))
  	(setcar itimer name))
      ;; signal an error if the timer's name matches an already

 -Sudish 

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