From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 39557@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39557: 27.0.60; Elisp manual, doc about bignums
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 10:53:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85imkbyf88.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7f19329d-6d7e-40e1-9c5c-ef6b58e25a62@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:34:22 -0800 (PST)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> > There seems to be a contradiction here: where we do describe the
>> > difference between fixnums and bignums, you argue that we shouldn't,
>> > but then you pick up a place where we don't distinguish between them,
>> > and you argue that we should...
>>
>> I think Drew intended the argument that we should distinguish them as a
>> sarcastic reductio ad absurdum.
>
> Not at all. I wonder why you would think that,
When you said this:
I mean, if you're going to be comparing against a literal value, and
the doc slants you toward using `eq' as it does
since you *don't* want the doc to slant towards `eq', I read that
paragraph as sarcastic.
By the way, this
I'm really surprised this doc got inserted as it is.
is too easily read as a snide jab (I know, you didn't mean it that way),
so it would be nice if you could leave out that kind of meta-opinion
from future reports.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-12 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-10 23:55 bug#39557: 27.0.60; Elisp manual, doc about bignums Drew Adams
2020-02-11 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-11 21:46 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-02-11 22:34 ` Drew Adams
2020-02-12 15:53 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2020-02-12 21:36 ` Drew Adams
2020-02-13 18:23 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-02-13 21:03 ` Drew Adams
2020-02-12 20:06 ` Richard Stallman
2020-02-13 23:43 ` Richard Stallman
2020-02-17 22:05 ` Paul Eggert
2020-02-17 23:19 ` Drew Adams
2020-02-17 23:52 ` Paul Eggert
2020-02-18 1:52 ` Drew Adams
2020-02-18 3:13 ` Paul Eggert
2020-09-25 11:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
[not found] <<3d420026-bb32-413f-9a9c-304240aa82e2@default>
[not found] ` <<8336bhrrb4.fsf@gnu.org>
2020-02-11 18:26 ` Drew Adams
2020-02-11 19:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
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