From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Intervals crash
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 18:10:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y6aprehh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sk0x28pr.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
> Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:34:08 +0900
>
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> > > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
> > > Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com,
> > > emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > > Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:52:28 +0900
> > >
> > > Eli Zaretskii writes:
> > >
> > > > If you really need the full range of size_t or EMACS_UINT,
> > > > there's little you can do in practice.
> > > Practically speaking, Emacs doesn't ever *really* need the full
> > > range of size_t, since Lisp can't represent it in a fixnum. It
> > > might be nice to have a way to store them, but you can use conses
> > > of fixnums, floats, or the occasionally-requested bignums for
> > > that.
> >
> > I didn't mean in APIs exposed to Lisp. I meant Emacs internals.
>
> What makes you think I don't understand that?
And what makes you think I need a paternalistic lecture about demerits
of unsigned data types? You already had your chance once, and I let
it go. Why do you think I deserve it twice in a row?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-25 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-23 18:23 Intervals crash Chong Yidong
2010-09-23 18:52 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-23 19:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-23 19:09 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-23 19:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-23 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-24 6:12 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-24 8:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-24 8:52 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-24 10:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-25 14:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-25 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-09-25 18:54 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-25 22:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-26 13:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-26 19:22 ` Miles Bader
2010-09-26 19:33 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-27 4:53 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-27 6:55 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-27 7:42 ` Jan Djärv
2010-09-27 8:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-27 9:02 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-27 11:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-27 8:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-27 8:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-27 9:39 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-27 9:45 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-27 10:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-24 10:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
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