From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Steingold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: inverse of float-time? Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:03:33 -0400 Organization: disorganization Message-ID: <87hadjdxm2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87vc27ntqe.fsf@gnu.org> <5230C108.2040609@cs.ucla.edu> <87r4cvnoie.fsf@gnu.org> <8738paog9i.fsf@gnu.org> <52314016.1070006@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: sds@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1379448234 4130 80.91.229.3 (17 Sep 2013 20:03:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:03:54 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 17 22:03:58 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VM1V8-0005ar-5I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 22:03:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43228 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VM1V7-00061l-O6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:03:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58718) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VM1V1-00061c-CF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:03:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VM1Ux-0006F6-2U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:03:51 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44861) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VM1Uw-0006Ez-M4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:03:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VM1Ut-0004yy-5w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 22:03:43 +0200 Original-Received: from 74.113.160.197 ([74.113.160.197]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 22:03:43 +0200 Original-Received: from sds by 74.113.160.197 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 22:03:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 74.113.160.197 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. Cancel-Lock: sha1:zq+KlTGql/WICzU3sq7a+eB377Y= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:163399 Archived-At: > * Paul Eggert [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 :-) -- Sam Steingold (http://sds.podval.org/) on Ubuntu 13.04 (raring) X 11.0.11303000 http://www.childpsy.net/ http://thereligionofpeace.com http://think-israel.org http://memri.org http://www.PetitionOnline.com/tap12009/ http://dhimmi.com History doesn't repeat itself, but historians do repeat each other.