From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master adcf904: Add bignum support in Tramp
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 08:24:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a717cd9e-05ca-cd2d-64b1-414254ce2c9e@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zzur022.fsf@gmail.com>
Robert Pluim wrote:
> Then how come NEWS talks about bignump and fixnump?
Because some contributors thought that bignump and fixnump might be useful
convenience functions for Lisp programmers. They're not, but I lost that argument.
If it were up to me, I wouldn't mention these functions in NEWS or document
them, as they cause more trouble and confusion than they cure. Worrying about
the distinction between bignums and fixnums unnecessarily complicates Lisp
programmers' lives, and we shouldn't encourage it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-28 15:24 UTC|newest]
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2018-08-28 14:40 ` master adcf904: Add bignum support in Tramp Robert Pluim
2018-08-28 15:07 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-28 15:19 ` Robert Pluim
2018-08-28 15:24 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2018-08-28 16:37 ` Robert Pluim
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