From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 17:25:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <29f933ac-a6bf-8742-66a7-0a9d6d3e5a88@disroot.org> <87lgaio7xd.fsf@tromey.com> <877em1cb0i.fsf@tromey.com> <765767b2-d2e5-a9a6-f724-d58ecf4847bb@cs.ucla.edu> <76081b5d-8c10-0a37-2c97-d4864c0faa80@cs.ucla.edu> <09153aed-361d-4f82-d9ac-b502314769ae@cs.ucla.edu> <83lg91dqd4.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1535491443 13007 195.159.176.226 (28 Aug 2018 21:24:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 21:24:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, cpitclaudel@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Pip Cet Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 28 23:23:58 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fulSu-0003C4-7s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 23:23:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40094 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fulV0-0006WM-8C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 17:26:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36078) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fulUm-0006U0-Ny for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 17:25:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fulUk-0005k9-S6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 17:25:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56240) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fulUB-0004kF-P4; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 17:25:20 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fulUB-0007B7-5V; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 17:25:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Pip Cet on Tue, 28 Aug 2018 02:25:20 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:229026 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > How about making (min) = 1.0e+INF and (max) = -1.0e+INF? That would be > easier to type, and it's mathematically correct. I think that is a good idea. However, I still think it would be a convenience to make max and min ignore nil as argument. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)