Re: [PATCH v3] emacs: support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script

Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] emacs: support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script

Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:34:38 +0400

To: Austin Clements, Jani Nikula

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: Dmitry Kurochkin

On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:24:51 -0500, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> Quoth Jani Nikula on Dec 12 at 11:13 pm:
> > On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:53:05 +0400, Dmitry Kurochkin <dmitry.kurochkin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:50:04 +0200, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
> > > > +If set to nil (the default), new mail is processed by invoking
> > > > +\"notmuch new\". Otherwise, this should be set to a string that
> > > > +gives the name of an external script that processes new mail. If
> > > > +set to the empty string, no command will be run.
> > > 
> > > I think this should be "an empty string".  But I may be mistaking.
> > 
> > Shameless copy paste from a native speaker, who am I to argue? :)
> > Austin?
> 
> Either way is grammatically correct.  Really, this is a philosophical
> question.  Can two empty strings have different identities?  Or is
> there only one empty string in the universe?
> 
> (eq "" "") => t
> (eq "" (string)) => t
> (eq "" (make-string 0 ?a)) => t
> (eq "" (substring "a" 1)) => t
> 
> It would appear Elisp is squarely in the "there is one empty string"
> camp, so "the empty string" would be more correct.

Fine with me then :)

Regards,
  Dmitry

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