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> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 18:01:17 +0100
> 
> >>>>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2024, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> It's not clear to me what the message "most uses turn out to be
> >> mistakes" tries to communicate. Was it a mistake to use lsh in code
> >> written in the pre-bignum era?
> 
> > Most uses of it, yes.  They should have used ash instead.
> 
> Only in hindsight, I suppose? Nothing in the old (i.e. pre-bignum)
> documentation suggests any preference for ash.

We consider the latter to be a problem, now fixed.