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Tutorial question re conventions or usage ??
From: |
William Case |
Subject: |
Tutorial question re conventions or usage ?? |
Date: |
Tue, 01 May 2007 13:44:18 -0400 |
Hi;
I am working my way through the Lisp tutorial.
I have come across the following example for the 'beginning-of-buffer'
function:
I can understand the Lisp in this code; the question is about normal
practises when writing similar code.
...
(if (> (buffer-size) 10000)
;; Avoid overflow for large buffer sizes!
(* (prefix-numeric-value arg)
(/ (buffer-size) 10))
(/ (+ 10 (* (buffer-size)
(prefix-numeric-value arg)))
...
In this code the writer has reduced the numbers by a factor of 10 in
order, it seems, to get the user to supply a one digit prefix that
none-the-less ends up being a percentage.
Is this a convention in emacs or the writer's one time personal choice?
It seems intuitive to me (and easier to follow the code) if it had been
written as a percentage from the beginning and doing any factoring by
100.
Should I always be looking for ways to make prefix numbers a single
digit?
Does it matter? Is there any gain or loss by using a longer or short
prefix digits?
--
Regards Bill
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