From: Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Code for converting between Elisp and Calc floats
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:03:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ws2kmuez.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv7hunkkf4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:50:53 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> As for the feature itself, I'm not sure whether I like it.
> Could someone explain exactly what's the rationale behind this
> (e.g. a typical use case), what alternatives were considered, etc...?
Vincent explained this to me, but I expect he'll come along and do a
better job explaining than I can.
> E.g. an "obvious" alternative would be to add builtin "big floats" via
> libgmp or some such.
Using libgmp in Emacs has been discussed in the past, but as I recall
hasn't had much support.
Jay
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-24 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-08 20:47 allow C-x v i / C-x v v to create a repository if none is available Dan Nicolaescu
2009-10-08 21:10 ` Chong Yidong
2009-10-09 19:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-09 19:32 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-10-13 18:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-13 15:59 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-10-21 19:06 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-10-23 7:45 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-10-23 13:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-24 2:34 ` Miles Bader
2009-10-24 6:35 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-10-22 18:56 ` Code for converting between Elisp and Calc floats Jay Belanger
2009-10-22 20:04 ` James Cloos
2009-10-23 0:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-24 20:03 ` Jay Belanger [this message]
2009-10-25 0:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-25 5:36 ` David Kastrup
2009-10-25 11:36 ` Vincent Belaïche
2009-10-25 14:11 ` Chong Yidong
2009-10-25 19:29 ` Vincent Belaïche
2009-10-26 2:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-26 12:48 ` Vincent Belaïche
2009-10-27 3:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-25 13:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-25 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-26 2:02 ` Large files (was: Code for converting between Elisp and Calc floats) Stefan Monnier
2009-10-23 13:11 ` Code for converting between Elisp and Calc floats Richard Stallman
2009-10-23 13:26 ` David Kastrup
2009-10-24 17:34 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-10-27 4:56 Vincent Belaïche
2009-10-27 6:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-27 19:38 ` Vincent Belaïche
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