From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Lisp reader syntax and bootstrap Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2023 22:04:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83cz16k2kx.fsf@gnu.org> <833522jwvr.fsf@gnu.org> <87wmzdjk6l.fsf@yahoo.com> <219844d2-ca07-30f4-4e2c-1b1df76d0fa5@cs.ucla.edu> <83fs60hnj2.fsf@gnu.org> <83cz14guz3.fsf@gnu.org> <83pm52dbzh.fsf@gnu.org> <87y1jqwhhs.fsf@epfl.ch> <835y6uct1j.fsf@gnu.org> <878rbpe7a3.fsf@yahoo.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11929"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ulm@gentoo.org, eliz@gnu.org, contovob@tcd.ie, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 13 04:05:59 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qJliR-0002hH-I4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 13 Jul 2023 04:05:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qJlhe-0003C2-J3; Wed, 12 Jul 2023 22:05:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qJlhT-0003Bm-EC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2023 22:05:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qJlhQ-0005kU-Jh; Wed, 12 Jul 2023 22:04:56 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=jnCqndMxgK0/Oo2us0OTEqLBByr6BiHHx7xWr7zku8k=; b=HxMdiRUAgU6T q7XHCpGtV+5ofvpxF/iexYrn4GAP83kb9qcspJZBAkUsks9WAb0qTIFfkGMkLIQcnwMWzSsAyrcdV QrXsHuwaTRpXU6SlYTnXSccs2n99Xm8UHhE/o9xJDSULGo/imtI+cTPIT1Gn+i+YGIT1T9ERbmOog n3NaoAy+2OPJnGGXyOabyGnHIZH34untt8K9J0b0a9sgJOJ46R0OChkroT/0u364r7qJVNbRj3FuD gx9VLJIs3LPbh5Ai1a6XwOuIAivn4Q5C62Ub72Uje8fQmitV9gMI8xEGR6d8VJuccVJqPsWoWgIny AVZPeetjKC8Y9i6wUxPfpA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qJlhP-0007qU-CM; Wed, 12 Jul 2023 22:04:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <878rbpe7a3.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Sun, 09 Jul 2023 17:57:56 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:307802 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. ]]] > I know of one: reader syntax for NaN and Inf cannot be used on machines > without IEEE floating point, where they will be read as symbols instead > (with possibly disastrous consequences.) Maybe the reader ought to recognize these anyway, and do something sensible with them -- such as, signal an error. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)