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: [RFC PATCH] Per-window face support Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 14:20:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5e08587a56ad528599ed5fb259be6335.squirrel@dancol.org> <83muw5vdtr.fsf@gnu.org> <83zhzvyqfy.fsf@gnu.org> <83lgbezs6q.fsf@gnu.org> <6b522145569975d52266e29e8122e86b.squirrel@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1529259566 647 195.159.176.226 (17 Jun 2018 18:19:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 18:19:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Daniel Colascione" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 17 20:19:22 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 1fUcGo-0008U5-4g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2018 20:19:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56021 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUcIv-0000ll-B0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2018 14:21:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60173) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUcIH-0000ld-QR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2018 14:20:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUcIE-0006pi-It for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2018 14:20:53 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:58904) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fUcIE-0006oY-EU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2018 14:20:50 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id w5HIKhf9018002; Sun, 17 Jun 2018 14:20:44 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B7CE5656ED; Sun, 17 Jun 2018 14:20:43 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <6b522145569975d52266e29e8122e86b.squirrel@dancol.org> (Daniel Colascione's message of "Sat, 16 Jun 2018 14:03:27 -0700") X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 2 Rules triggered EDT_SA_DN_PASS=0, RV6309=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <6309> : inlines <6702> : streams <1789967> : uri <2659810> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 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:226416 Archived-At: >>>>> > I still wonder why we only allow EQ there, it sounds unnecessarily >>>>> > restrictive. >> Agree. A recent discussion indeed pointed out that EQ is fundamentally >> flawed and there can be good reasons to try and give up on EQ and use >> `equal` instead. > Huh? EQ is the simplest, least flawed primitive one can imagine. It's > simple object identity comparison. In the context of bignums and floats it's pretty thorougly flawed. [ I said we should use `equal` instead but that was a mistake: I meant `eql`. ] Stefan