From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 18:43:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6954a85a-84c8-42a3-bd5e-f4178f0befed@default> References: <<0f632217-27ad-4f54-8ce0-480301fa2a86@cs.ucla.edu>> <<83pnxorm37.fsf@gnu.org>> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536458011 30325 195.159.176.226 (9 Sep 2018 01:53:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2018 01:53:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 09 03:53:27 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 1fyoul-0007p7-3w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2018 03:53:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45773 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyowr-0004S7-Hb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 21:55:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41817) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyowP-0004B3-07 for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 21:55:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyol9-0003pA-9Y for Emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 21:43:31 -0400 Original-Received: from userp2120.oracle.com ([156.151.31.85]:60336) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fyol5-0003fy-KN; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 21:43:27 -0400 Original-Received: from pps.filterd (userp2120.oracle.com [127.0.0.1]) by userp2120.oracle.com (8.16.0.22/8.16.0.22) with SMTP id w891d6aO069228; Sun, 9 Sep 2018 01:43:18 GMT DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=oracle.com; h=mime-version : message-id : date : from : sender : to : cc : subject : references : in-reply-to : content-type : content-transfer-encoding; s=corp-2018-07-02; bh=mk1YoAHVnhav7gVz7bXhVgrcmeRzq+daPmXsOfrzDvs=; b=2viEMHv+uryjJTgVXbeSKwjlMlR33Mjn8w+vBt/7VAS0RRd6CkxZyk1WYQRmH5qH1Z0u O3G84gfWmYzeQw66CH/up7rTbfFDMCv/CjwbOYdz7ccwNamTbwAGiwEnBHF13uYnJY2V 7m5vJGIQUhh035Cc79/w74Qn6KrWsaoyfCThWKRcg92ho7dKYudiUZiTErpn+xyPd9YY MdRHzU6U0pnOfF79rE/gR3qsZaBt91zY4rff9LvsPxQ487bYS+YZE0u6p5cUPOpZ6TcW Fxdiik6PcFwOru5PCrT05r/LkPUAuSlWUSiZ1DzGEYP0EPuyYBvNEpcmU38ihJisfHHF nA== Original-Received: from aserv0022.oracle.com (aserv0022.oracle.com [141.146.126.234]) by userp2120.oracle.com with ESMTP id 2mc72q9h73-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 09 Sep 2018 01:43:18 +0000 Original-Received: from userv0121.oracle.com (userv0121.oracle.com [156.151.31.72]) by aserv0022.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id w891hBAo017463 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 9 Sep 2018 01:43:12 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0006.oracle.com (abhmp0006.oracle.com [141.146.116.12]) by userv0121.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.13.8) with ESMTP id w891hBws016590; Sun, 9 Sep 2018 01:43:11 GMT In-Reply-To: <<83pnxorm37.fsf@gnu.org>> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9.1 (1003210) [OL 16.0.4735.0 (x86)] X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=nai engine=5900 definitions=9010 signatures=668708 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 suspectscore=0 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 mlxscore=0 mlxlogscore=572 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1807170000 definitions=main-1809090017 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.85 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:229531 Archived-At: > 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".