From: Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: e
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 07:23:51 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B86864D4-7B97-45CD-9F0A-3DF4FEE5CE84@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oafhkc90.fsf@fastmail.com>
Thank you for the references (Drew too).
Since al this happened in the same day I guess I changed of version without realizing it (like the OSX standard version and then the brew version).
Jean-Christophe
> On Oct 29, 2015, at 22:58, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> wrote:
>
> Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com> writes:
>> yes, but I was doing tests in ielm and I'm pretty sure I did not type
>> float-e. It was clearly e, and after seeing e evaluated, I tried pi
>> (which worked then and works still).
>
> (describe-variable 'pi) says it's "Obsolete since Emacs-23.3".
>
> The actual removal of e is here:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit?id=993687
> And it was marked obsolete here:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit?id=9e0d4f
>
> But you can see from the comments that the writing was always in the
> wall, since here:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit?id=9a0fc3
>> +;; It's too inconvenient to make `e' a constant because it's used as
>> +;; a temporary variable all the time.
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-29 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-29 10:03 e Jean-Christophe Helary
2015-10-29 10:09 ` e Andreas Schwab
2015-10-29 10:20 ` e Jean-Christophe Helary
2015-10-29 13:58 ` e Random832
2015-10-29 22:23 ` Jean-Christophe Helary [this message]
2015-10-31 5:32 ` e Stephen J. Turnbull
2015-10-31 5:58 ` e Random832
2015-10-31 7:40 ` e Jean-Christophe Helary
2015-11-01 1:38 ` e Xue Fuqiao
2015-11-01 4:29 ` e Random832
2015-10-29 13:59 ` e Drew Adams
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