From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>
Cc: philipk@posteo.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master c290b034e0f 1/2: Move `wholenump` alias definition
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2023 13:07:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y1hn7ep1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F80693A4-9FAB-4339-B717-5F04BFC471E6@gmail.com> (message from Mattias Engdegård on Sun, 3 Sep 2023 12:02:01 +0200)
> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2023 12:02:01 +0200
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> 3 sep. 2023 kl. 11.54 skrev Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>:
>
> > I didn't know about this function (even though it appears to go back to
> > Emacs 19), but it might be confusing to some people. In German "Ganze
> > Zahlen" (literally "whole numbers") is the term for integers, but
> > apparently Wikipedia[0] mentions that the term is ambiguous and might
> > refer both to ℤ and ℕ. Is there anything that can be done about this?
>
> Not a lot, for compatibility reasons. I agree completely about the uselessness of this alias and its poor naming.
I'm guessing that was for compatibility with some other Lisp.
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[not found] ` <20230903094826.33FFAC045B5@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2023-09-03 9:54 ` master c290b034e0f 1/2: Move `wholenump` alias definition Philip Kaludercic
2023-09-03 10:02 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-09-03 10:07 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-09-03 10:22 ` Mattias Engdegård
2023-09-03 10:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-03 10:46 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-09-03 10:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-09-03 12:07 ` Stefan Kangas
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