From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andy Moreton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 9dd95bf: * lisp/emacs-lisp/pcase.el (pcase--u1): Fix bignums Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 13:15:54 +0100 Message-ID: <86woq360w5.fsf@gmail.com> References: <83bm7hozav.fsf@gnu.org> <83zhv0oink.fsf@gnu.org> <83va5ooboc.fsf@gnu.org> <83pnvwo7i3.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1540642690 14072 195.159.176.226 (27 Oct 2018 12:18:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 12:18:10 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (windows-nt) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 27 14:18:06 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 1gGNXY-0003Vc-Uv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2018 14:18:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36425 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gGNZf-0001QP-Bm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2018 08:20:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52147) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gGNVd-0006Ug-FJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2018 08:16:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gGNVa-0005pX-7f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2018 08:16:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=47777 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gGNVa-0005od-0Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2018 08:16:02 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gGNTR-0007Wn-Ah for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2018 14:13:49 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q+wI3v5lZUQMHmpKkeBHBdxa9m4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:230733 Archived-At: On Fri 26 Oct 2018, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Stefan Monnier >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 14:23:26 -0400 >> >> >> Would you feel the same if `pcase` always used `equal` and the >> >> optimization to `eql` were performed in the byte-compiler instead? >> > I don't know, and it's not really relevant, is it? >> >> It is: the use of `eq` or `eql` here is an optimization which pcase >> performs only because the compiler doesn't do it. > > I disagree. We describe our code, not what the compiler produces out > of it. Documentation should be describing the fixed semantics of the interface, not the details of the underlying implementation, nor aspects of the interface that expose details of the current implementation. AndyM