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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Benjamin Slade <slade@jnanam.net>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: new calendrical calculations - elisp - common lisp
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:28:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DF664E0.2000802@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=G4+zZ84B6jyh7oSvfaoLebdRbYQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 06/13/11 10:00, Benjamin Slade wrote:
> A general question: do you have any sense for whether these sorts of
> calculations could be handled by Emacs Lisp, or whether they require Common
> Lisp?

I'm sure Emacs Lisp is up to doing them.  There may be some issues with
large integers but they can be handled.  As you suspect, though, it
will take a bit of hacking to do it right.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-13 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-13 16:40 new calendrical calculations - elisp - common lisp Benjamin Slade
     [not found] ` <4DF64086.20802@cs.ucla.edu>
2011-06-13 17:00   ` Benjamin Slade
2011-06-13 19:28     ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2011-06-13 17:06 ` Edward Reingold
2011-06-13 19:59   ` Richard Stallman
2011-06-17 20:34     ` Chong Yidong

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