Re: addition produces strange results when run with eval-last-sexp

[Miles Bader]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 10:27:02AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > You can always ignore it of course (it's only produced for display in
> > the echo area -- if you use a C-u prefix to insert the results, you get
> > just the number), though I suppose it might confuse some people.
> 
> It's very natural when evaluating something like (make-char ...)
> or (aref str n).

No doubt, but those don't seem like very common things to do.

It would be better, I think if the format of the message was more explicit,
e.g.,:

   65   (char value `A')

-Miles
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