From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Chong Yidong' <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
'Stefan Monnier' <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: e and pi
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:12:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100918151203.GA18176@tomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F99D50BB46EB4F908E6321EA6836A568@us.oracle.com>
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On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 09:14:57AM -0700, Drew Adams wrote:
[...]
> `float-e' is a longer name, but it is silly - this is not about whether the
> value is a float. The name should say what the constant means/is - `math-e' or
> whatever [...]
+1 for math-e
Those are constants in some hypothetical "math" package.
(Besides, float-e reminds me fatally of Hungarian notation, but of
course not everyone has to share my allergies :)
Regards
- -- tomás
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-18 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-16 13:25 e and pi Stefan Monnier
2010-09-16 13:44 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-09-16 15:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-16 13:47 ` Leo
2010-09-16 15:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-16 14:27 ` Helmut Eller
2010-09-16 15:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-16 18:52 ` Helmut Eller
2010-09-16 14:44 ` Jason Rumney
2010-09-16 22:54 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-17 0:04 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-09-17 0:14 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-17 7:00 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-17 8:09 ` Simon Leinen
2010-09-17 8:15 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-17 9:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-17 9:21 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-17 9:47 ` Helmut Eller
2010-09-17 15:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-17 15:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-17 15:56 ` Helmut Eller
2010-09-17 22:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-17 15:44 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-17 15:50 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-17 16:06 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-17 16:18 ` Helmut Eller
2010-09-17 16:45 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-17 17:14 ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-18 10:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-18 10:21 ` Helmut Eller
2010-09-18 11:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-18 11:26 ` Helmut Eller
2010-09-18 10:50 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-18 11:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-18 14:27 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-18 14:32 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-09-18 15:11 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-17 22:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-18 1:10 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-18 8:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-18 19:10 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-18 21:37 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-09-19 0:57 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 13:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-09-18 14:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-18 15:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-18 16:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-19 10:07 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-09-17 16:14 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 15:12 ` tomas [this message]
2010-09-18 17:52 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-19 19:13 ` tomas
2010-09-17 23:35 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-09-17 16:55 ` Sam Steingold
2010-09-17 22:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-17 22:55 ` Drew Adams
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-09-17 4:20 MON KEY
2010-09-18 5:58 MON KEY
2010-09-18 14:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-19 2:03 ` MON KEY
2010-09-18 16:07 ` David De La Harpe Golden
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