From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding a generic mathematical library Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 12:04:44 +0300 Message-ID: <86ikx3f4ur.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8734o9sdig.fsf@posteo.net> <87wmllqq66.fsf@posteo.net> <87plrdqnhc.fsf@posteo.net> <87le21qldj.fsf_-_@posteo.net> <87r0bssde4.fsf@web.de> <87frs8sb8p.fsf@web.de> <87zfqf8c8n.fsf@dataswamp.org> <86plrbf990.fsf@gnu.org> <87msmf86ax.fsf@dataswamp.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10968"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 18 11:05:09 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sUN4W-0002PX-2b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2024 11:05:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sUN4D-0004Ku-NI; Thu, 18 Jul 2024 05:04:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sUN4B-0004AD-CK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2024 05:04:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sUN4B-00056R-3i; Thu, 18 Jul 2024 05:04:47 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=1G8OV11KkwKZ8YaqPtZjlWDcKd7S54spGKobecVWV/c=; b=GiruU2+2KNmI NQPXFm9B8+o8BKNTsr+BVeu5kc0T4US0rIQkhRb3ji+/BwEJkcA/yR5M4CmvqyEELxBvj8lobW+w/ bWD+TCKGCe8Uv635F+5NcLFq/vUPBvggvbTQDYCcu58JXdTPtZ6WnjlX7eDEvjEmy8BbUffb/X4hq WokXqkXcbzbW1u9kncXARXxePRey8rx1sG1ko2orBI+aqopyhiKgryghOszswWskOOxF9MMy1yqp6 XYHz21ogF0lkImsF/utFJ6KfJTBPR3LdBKDuIA1qg4R7VquYbg+Wy9q1k9VR8EaJknJumt8GYx6hV gtPNqFN2jvb8cJWDx2HffA==; In-Reply-To: <87msmf86ax.fsf@dataswamp.org> (message from Emanuel Berg on Thu, 18 Jul 2024 10:15:18 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:321786 Archived-At: > From: Emanuel Berg > Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 10:15:18 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > >> In general libraries for everything is a good way of not > >> having people write code that solves the same problems over > >> and over. > > > > Yes, but since the functions you propose are not in Emacs, > > and neither (AFAICT) is any code which resembles them, > > I wonder whether the need is a real one and general enough > > to justify such a package. > > There is no need for a math library for the Emacs editor, > which is extensively used by programmers and tech people all > over the world. Because math is not a general need. That's not what I said, not even close.