From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: hypotenuse (was: Re: Adding a generic mathematical library)
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 16:30:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87plr6u8al.fsf_-_@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1sUqHm-00071h-59@fencepost.gnu.org
Richard Stallman wrote:
> Onsider, for instance, `hypotenuse'. The benefit of having
> that functoin would not quite be zero, but it would be
> small. Is it enough to justify the additional function name,
> and the complexity of documenting it?
RMS has really performed excellently in this discussion and my
favorite part of his critique must be this.
What a sharp eye, to immediately identify the problem of
a proposed solution!
Indeed: Is it enough to justify the "complexity of documenting
it"?
That is an excellent question, and I leave it free for all
to contemplate. Can we justify the complexity?
Or does the below two lines of Elisp belong to the dustbin
of computing?
(defun hypotenuse (c1 c2)
(sqrt (+ (* c1 c1) (* c2 c2))) )
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2024-07-12 16:47 Add elisa to GNU ELPA Sergey Kostyaev
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2024-07-16 13:57 ` Sergey Kostyaev
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2024-07-16 16:35 ` Sergey Kostyaev
2024-07-17 13:21 ` Andrew Hyatt
2024-07-16 16:41 ` Sergey Kostyaev
2024-07-16 17:02 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-07-16 17:47 ` Adding a generic mathematical library Philip Kaludercic
2024-07-16 22:06 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-17 2:54 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-17 5:58 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-19 16:16 ` Richard Stallman
2024-07-19 17:38 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 5:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-20 12:45 ` Max Nikulin
2024-07-20 13:53 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 5:19 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 6:15 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 7:40 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 8:45 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 8:29 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 7:27 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 8:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 9:14 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 9:48 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 11:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 11:53 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 12:10 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 12:27 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 12:46 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 13:03 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 13:17 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-21 14:41 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 14:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-21 14:58 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 15:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-21 15:18 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 13:18 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 13:26 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 14:35 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 19:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 19:33 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 19:51 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 20:01 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 20:17 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 12:41 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 13:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 13:41 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 12:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 12:04 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 14:30 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2024-07-21 14:44 ` hypotenuse (was: Re: Adding a generic mathematical library) Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-21 15:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-21 15:12 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-21 16:13 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 15:54 ` hypotenuse Max Nikulin
2024-07-21 16:12 ` hypotenuse Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-21 16:17 ` hypotenuse Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 19:01 ` hypotenuse (was: Re: Adding a generic mathematical library) Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 19:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-21 17:38 ` tomas
2024-07-17 7:09 ` Adding a generic mathematical library Michael Heerdegen via Emacs development discussions.
2024-07-17 7:54 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-07-17 7:56 ` Michael Heerdegen via Emacs development discussions.
2024-07-18 6:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-18 6:45 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-18 7:12 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-18 7:49 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 4:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-18 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-18 7:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-18 9:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-21 4:52 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-18 8:15 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-18 9:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-18 9:13 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-21 4:59 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-19 13:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-07-19 16:12 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-19 16:15 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-07-19 16:29 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-19 16:16 ` Richard Stallman
2024-07-19 18:00 ` Christopher Dimech
2024-07-17 21:26 ` Add elisa to GNU ELPA Sergey Kostyaev
2024-07-17 22:12 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-07-18 3:45 ` Sergey Kostyaev
2024-07-18 11:06 ` Sergey Kostyaev
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