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bug#10657: 24.0.93; (elisp) Parsing Expressions - what about numerals?
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Chong Yidong |
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bug#10657: 24.0.93; (elisp) Parsing Expressions - what about numerals? |
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Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:51:54 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) |
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> "Basically, a sexp is either a balanced parenthetical grouping, a
> string, or a symbol name (a sequence of characters whose syntax is
> either word constituent or symbol constituent)."
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> What about numerals?
A numeral is also a sequence of characters whose syntax is either word
constituent or symbol constituent. I tweaked this to make the meaning
more obvious.
> And `i' doesn't help at all with "s expression" or "s-expression" or
> "symbolic expression". Or for that matter "balanced expression",
Fixed.