From: "Rüdiger Sonderfeld" <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for log2.
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:56:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3278069.v43fCk5uy9@descartes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51C26A9E.7080200@cs.ucla.edu>
On Wednesday 19 June 2013 19:36:14 Paul Eggert wrote:
> Elisp already has a syntax for log2 (X), namely (log X 2),
> so how about the following more-conservative change?
> This avoids adding the "log2" function to the Emacs namespace,
> thus no need for a NEWS entry, doc change, etc.
>
> (I know the same argument applies to log10, but
> that horse left the barn long ago.)
I would be fine with that. Common Lisp has no log2 or log10 either, so it
probably makes sense. However I think in that case we should consider
deprecating log10 for the sake of consistency. The existence of a log10 seems
to imply a lack of a log2.
Regards,
Rüdiger
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-20 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-20 0:03 [PATCH] Add support for log2 Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2013-06-20 2:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-20 2:36 ` Paul Eggert
2013-06-20 12:56 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld [this message]
2013-06-20 14:27 ` Paul Eggert
2013-06-20 14:36 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
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