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Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM> writes:

> It would be marginally faster to do
> (memq creator '(?\0 ?\2 ?\4 ?\5 ?\12))
                                  ^^^^
> instead of
> (memq (char-int creator) '(0 2 4 5 9))

> Whether it's clearer depends on the context, but type conversions
> should be minimized, as a software engineering principle.

Perhaps, but I consider them preferable over taking decimal constants
and making them octal constants.
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