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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:228302 Archived-At: >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert writes: Paul> Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> I see no reason yet to get rid of XFASTINT. Certainly not because we >> need to come up with one more macro name. Paul> The name is just the straw that broke the camel's back. We haven't Paul> needed XFASTINT for years, the distinction between XINT and XFASTINT Paul> is more hassle than it's worth, and maintaining the distinction with Paul> XFASTFIXNUM and XFASTINTEGER and XFASTBIGNUM would compound the Paul> hassle. Paul> The main reason to keep XFASTINT was inertia. As long as we're redoing Paul> XFASTINT calls anyway we might as well change them to XINTEGER or Paul> XFIXNUM (whichever is applicable), and clean out the XFAST... cruft. While I tend to agree that it makes sense to remove XFASTINT, I think I would rather it be a separate patch from the bignum branch. So, I used the name Andy suggested. Tom