From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 18:43:10 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6954a85a-84c8-42a3-bd5e-f4178f0befed@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<83pnxorm37.fsf@gnu.org>>
> Sorry, I disagree. I think it's important for the Lisp programmers to
> know what kind of objects they could get as return values. Maybe in
> some distant future we will no longer care about the difference
> between fixnums and bignums, but as of now, we still do.
+1. If there is a difference then users deserve to know about it
(without looking at the code). Whenever there is no difference
it can be enough to say "number".
next parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-09 1:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <<0f632217-27ad-4f54-8ce0-480301fa2a86@cs.ucla.edu>
[not found] ` <<83pnxorm37.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-09-09 1:43 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2018-09-08 16:09 documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums Paul Eggert
2018-09-08 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 18:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08 20:15 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-08 22:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08 23:37 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-09 2:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-09 5:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10 0:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-10 6:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10 12:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-10 13:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-09 5:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-10 0:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-08 20:05 ` Paul Eggert
2018-09-08 21:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 21:58 ` Stefan Monnier
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