Re: infloop in skeleton-insert

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Nick Roberts <address@hidden> writes:

> > It doesn't on Emacs 22:
> 
> > (char-or-string-p -4)
> > t
> 
> > and if it does on Emacs 23 then I think that must be the bug.
> 
> Emacs 23 surely returns nil in that case.  I think the
> behaviour of Emacs 22 is a bug (or at least very confusing).

> Emacs 21 appears to have the same behaviour.

> Don't people think OBJ can be safely used as an argument of
> a function that expects a character (e.g. insert,
> char-to-string) if (char-or-string-p OBJ) is true?

> The manual says:

>    A "character" in Emacs Lisp is nothing more than an integer.

> That would have to change.

> And continues with:

>                                                                  In
>   other words, characters are represented by their character codes.  For
>   example, the character `A' is represented as the integer 65.

> Perhaps the `character' -4 just doesn't have a representation/character code.

??? If `character' -4 doesn't have a character code, what is
-4 for that character?  And, if it doesnt' have a
representation, -4 doesn't represent a character, thus -4 is
not a character.

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Kenichi Handa
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