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Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: proposal to make null string handling more emacs-y
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:22:58 +0300

> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:24:57 -0700
> From: Steve Yegge <address@hidden>
> 
> I think we should change all the core string-manipulation functions to deal
> gracefully with nil arguments.  Specifically, I want to change the smallest
> set of functions that may originate the infamous "wrong-type-argument
> (stringp, nil)" error, making them instead treat nil as if it were the
> empty string.

I'm quite sure this will break gobs of existing code in Emacs.  The
entire display engine, for starters.



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