From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Daniel Colascione" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Per-window face support Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 11:48:01 -0700 Message-ID: <50a1e0f98f6cfc5e55fdc2b7df5000b5.squirrel@dancol.org> References: <5e08587a56ad528599ed5fb259be6335.squirrel@dancol.org> <83muw5vdtr.fsf@gnu.org> <83zhzvyqfy.fsf@gnu.org> <83lgbezs6q.fsf@gnu.org> <6b522145569975d52266e29e8122e86b.squirrel@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1529261222 22358 195.159.176.226 (17 Jun 2018 18:47:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 18:47:02 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.23 [SVN] Cc: Daniel Colascione , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stefan Monnier" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 17 20:46:57 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fUchU-0005eo-Cn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2018 20:46:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56092 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUcjb-0007e0-IH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2018 14:49:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36441) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUcig-0007bE-FW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2018 14:48:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUcif-0007Xq-N4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2018 14:48:10 -0400 Original-Received: from dancol.org ([2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fedf:adf3]:44038) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUcif-0007UF-Dg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2018 14:48:09 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dancol.org; s=x; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:Cc:To:From:Subject:Date:References:In-Reply-To:Message-ID; bh=LASymyfqoqH8GjVVlWU6BxNWBLfItvHaRMbXMcKCr2A=; b=hHWPnPdjvPuir6cq6OEyjzgTMQTgYQm+tKq9/5IxUixJL9HVcR6P2eHJEB81Z/2unalBgNpzxwNH+DxkzwyCTckS5OEdr3pOuO+jZ1ZnK/lv6XkWSnZ1guS05MthTU78PaP5K5djJ/6Dp9+OUTGk37txBIs8BgHvLGE4spT6aqbXM/FGttnVag+ElCLRcXAhBYzXNrDFoE2zzXhlamRXJgnDTFYT7KzFSyxSpCgyMXn6g1OumtFGVW1QxSlXffqzGwbh88WGt6no20dQ5+Sj+TuK8dxVnTqv/jx8EFchryjPeSS8BoU4rErOXqLr0xiIkM1C4VN74IgLiFj/Zu9Lnw==; Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=dancol.org) by dancol.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fUciX-0000Fp-R6; Sun, 17 Jun 2018 11:48:01 -0700 Original-Received: from 127.0.0.1 (SquirrelMail authenticated user dancol) by dancol.org with HTTP; Sun, 17 Jun 2018 11:48:01 -0700 In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fedf:adf3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:226419 Archived-At: >>>>>> > I still wonder why we only allow EQ there, it sounds unnecessarily >>>>>> > restrictive. >>> Agree. A recent discussion indeed pointed out that EQ is fundamentally >>> flawed and there can be good reasons to try and give up on EQ and use >>> `equal` instead. >> Huh? EQ is the simplest, least flawed primitive one can imagine. It's >> simple object identity comparison. > > In the context of bignums and floats it's pretty thorougly flawed. > [ I said we should use `equal` instead but that was a mistake: I meant > `eql`. ] I think that ship sailed a long time ago. Almost everyone uses eq for integers, so we should, I think, intern bignums so that things keep working. Floats typically aren't equality-compared anyway.