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

[Oliver Scholz]

Luc Teirlinck <address@hidden> writes:

> Juri Linkov wrote:
>
>    It's not only weird, but often too injurious: to display characters
>    for large numbers it starts to load completely unnecessary fonts.
>
> I agree.
>
> I believe that to most Emacs users the feature will be extremely
> confusing.  Loading fonts to do arithmetic operations clearly makes no
> sense.

Maybe it is just me, but I operate more often on numbers-as-characters
than on numbers-as-numbers.  C-x C-e is very nifty to check, to give
just one example, whether a particular `decode-char' expression does
indeed return the character that I want.  I find this feature very
helpful and a real time-saver.  Given that integers in Emacs are both
characters and numbers, I find this feature consequent, not weird at
all.


    Oliver
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