Re: Enclosing text in a box

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:11:04 +0700
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 at 20:59, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > Using 'length' to measure the width of text on display is not
> > reliable, because there are characters of different width.  It is
> > better to use 'string-width' or 'string-pixel-width' instead.
> 
> The next stumbling point is going to be “make-string does the wrong
> thing when passed 17.237 as the count”, without an explanation as to
> what the right thing would be. (I don’t know either.)

Why would sane code call make-string with such an argument?