From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2018 17:58:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: <0f632217-27ad-4f54-8ce0-480301fa2a86@cs.ucla.edu> <83pnxorm37.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536444207 19138 195.159.176.226 (8 Sep 2018 22:03:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 22:03:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 09 00:03:23 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 1fylK7-0004tb-Mw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2018 00:03:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45351 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fylMD-0002gS-Mk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 18:05:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37514) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fylLv-0002NF-3U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 18:05:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fylFW-0004jf-6A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 17:58:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=39817 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fylFV-0004eL-SY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 17:58:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fylDL-0006Pi-CJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2018 23:56:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 8 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:kBsLk2tuV3onhqUmfsXcfGJB3ys= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:229520 Archived-At: > When Lisp programmers care about object types, they should care only whether > the objects are integers. I agree, but as long as `eq` behaves differently, the difference is important. Stefan