GNU bug report logs - #4869
23.1.50; weak documentation of prefer-coding-system

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Joseph Brenner <doom <at> kzsu.stanford.edu>

Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:10:04 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 24.1

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>,
        4869 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: juri <at> jurta.org, doom <at> kzsu.stanford.edu
Subject: bug#4869: 23.1.50; weak documentation of prefer-coding-system
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:41:42 +0200

> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:50:03 +0100
> Cc: Joseph Brenner <doom <at> kzsu.stanford.edu>
> 
> > Why not allow both?  Some MULE functions allow a symbol and a string.
> 
> Because it is at least a rudimentary type check? ;-)

There's no need for this type check because prefer-coding-system
already checks its argument with coding-system-p, which is the full
type check for coding systems.
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