From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 8525@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8525: Lisp reader and string-to-number bugs and inconsistencies
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:45:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tydtgq0l.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DAEA71A.3090503@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:27:54 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
>
> To fix (2), it's plausible to change the code in one of two ways:
> either silently treat large integers as floats, or signal an overflow.
> I don't care that much one way or another, but Emacs should be
> consistent. I mildly prefer reporting the overflow
My preference is the other way around: convert it to a float. I think
it is more in line with many Emacs features, like the values returned
by file-attributes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-20 10:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-20 9:27 bug#8525: Lisp reader and string-to-number bugs and inconsistencies Paul Eggert
2011-04-20 10:45 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-04-20 13:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-21 20:05 ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-24 4:43 ` Stefan Monnier
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