From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: e and pi Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:16:22 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4C939D97.7090501@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284761795 24380 80.91.229.12 (17 Sep 2010 22:16:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:16:35 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 18 00:16:34 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwjEP-00071r-8s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:16:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45649 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OwjEO-00072Z-Fs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:16:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36194 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OwjEK-00072Q-0J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:16:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwjEI-0008NP-S4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:16:27 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:37760) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwjEI-0008NF-My for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:16:26 -0400 Original-Received: from ceviche.home (vpn-132-204-232-179.acd.umontreal.ca [132.204.232.179]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o8HMGN3l013842; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:16:24 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id EBE0166289; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:16:22 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <4C939D97.7090501@gnu.org> (Sam Steingold's message of "Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:55:51 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3625=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:130368 Archived-At: >> Now, we have a lot of offending (defvar ) in Emacs currently, so we >> will want to fix them, and to get things started, we want to fix the two >> predefined float constants `e' and `pi'. > why does the constant e exist in the first place? Beats me: it's only used at one place in emacs/lisp. But that's what we have to live with, Stefan