From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8525: Lisp reader and string-to-number bugs and inconsistencies Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:45:30 +0300 Message-ID: <83tydtgq0l.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4DAEA71A.3090503@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1303297663 22571 80.91.229.12 (20 Apr 2011 11:07:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:07:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8525@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 20 13:07:34 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QCVFs-0004XX-3D for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:07:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34019 helo=lists2.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCVFr-0005Rd-F2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:07:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54223) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCVFo-0005RX-Ns for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:07:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCVFn-0005OI-N6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:07:28 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:43350) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCVFn-0005OC-Hg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:07:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QCUw2-0006Ic-M5; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:47:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:47:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 8525 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 8525-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B8525.130329638524172 (code B ref 8525); Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:47:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8525) by debbugs.gnu.org; 20 Apr 2011 10:46:25 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QCUvR-0006Hp-9p for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:46:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QCUvP-0006Hb-Ey for 8525@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:46:24 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LJY00J005SEXO00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for 8525@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:45:24 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.96.168]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LJY00JLV5VFDHD0@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:45:23 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4DAEA71A.3090503@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:47:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:45879 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:27:54 -0700 > From: Paul Eggert > > 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.