Re: evaluating numbers

[Paul Eggert]

On 11/14/19 6:10 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >      232 (#o350, #xe8, LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE)
> >      1114109 (#o4177775, #x10fffd, <Plane 16 Private Use>)
> I don't think this is less confusing, and I'm not really interested in
> opening that old debate again.  The train has left the station, so
> people who are unhappy with the current defaults should customize the
> option we provided back then.

Although I agree this topic has been discussed a lot, I wouldn't be so 
hasty to reject Yuri's suggestion. I don't see how to customize Emacs so 
that eval-expression outputs a string like "232 (#o350, #xe8, LATIN 
SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE)". The behavior that Yuri's suggesting would 
be more convenient to me than what Emacs currently does, as I often deal 
with characters where it's more important to know the character's name 
than what it looks like. I don't see the harm of adding this feature to 
eval-expression by default, or at least as an option.