From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: inverse of float-time?
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:03:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hadjdxm2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 52314016.1070006@cs.ucla.edu
> * Paul Eggert <rttreg@pf.hpyn.rqh> [2013-09-11 21:16:22 -0700]:
>
> Sam Steingold wrote:
>> what I want is for float time to be transparently accepted by
>> all functions which accept list time.
>
> On second thought I'm not sure I want to encourage that.
> Floating-point loses information, due to rounding, and
> this can cause glitches that can make floating-point
> more trouble than it's worth.
So, what is the official use case for float time?
When one would use it instead of time-date?
It would seem that float-time should be either deprecated or granted
equal rights :-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-17 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-11 17:39 inverse of float-time? Sam Steingold
2013-09-11 19:14 ` Paul Eggert
2013-09-11 19:31 ` Sam Steingold
2013-09-12 1:52 ` Leo Liu
2013-09-12 3:44 ` Sam Steingold
2013-09-12 4:16 ` Paul Eggert
2013-09-12 16:30 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-09-17 20:03 ` Sam Steingold [this message]
2013-09-17 21:10 ` Paul Eggert
2013-09-12 3:07 ` SAKURAI Masashi
2013-09-12 3:42 ` Sam Steingold
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