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: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 09:54:09 -0400 Message-ID: References: <29f933ac-a6bf-8742-66a7-0a9d6d3e5a88@disroot.org> <83bmecy6fx.fsf@gnu.org> <0d3175d8-d996-651e-b221-71978bde3a65@cs.ucla.edu> <87tvpdnzgy.fsf@tromey.com> <4c2a814f-c254-29e5-39cf-11b5f2e5c9c8@cs.ucla.edu> <49d8ba62-c9a5-9203-d882-8e900b441ff3@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531230820 8243 195.159.176.226 (10 Jul 2018 13:53:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 13:53:40 +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 Tue Jul 10 15:53:36 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 1fct5E-00023k-4H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 15:53:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48003 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fct7L-0005iA-4A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 09:55:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49579) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fct5z-0005KS-NV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 09:54:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fct5w-0002q0-ME for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 09:54:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=43948 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fct5w-0002ph-EW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 09:54:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fct3k-0000SO-3Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 15:52:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:ci+hlA9pUfCImypOsSjLwyAM9AY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] 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:227208 Archived-At: > The most precise type for 5 would be (eql 5) or (integer 5 5). Indeed, and we don't want that. > But I guess for generic function dispatch it would more useful to have > something like a "representation type". That's right. The most precise possible, but not too precise. Stefan