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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
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Subject: Re: arc-mode warnings
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sb> -			   (not (not (memq creator '(0 2 4 5 9))))))
sb> +			   (not (not (memq (char-int creator) '(0 2 4 5 9))))))

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.

Martin

