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: view/edit large files Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:58:05 -0500 Message-ID: References: <86fxiuw6u7.fsf@lifelogs.com> <86zlgzqudo.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <86k583p96e.fsf@lifelogs.com> <874oz7grs0.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <864oz3nyj8.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234231100 17250 80.91.229.12 (10 Feb 2009 01:58:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:58:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 10 02:59:35 2009 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 4.50) id 1LWhuQ-00046t-Ed for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:59:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53195 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LWht6-0002d7-Pn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:58:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LWht2-0002cx-4I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:58:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LWht0-0002ch-IN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:58:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41595 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LWht0-0002ce-Dc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:58:06 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:25253) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LWht0-00070m-0T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:58:06 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApsEADNukElFxIvi/2dsb2JhbACBbs9+hBoGgyA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,183,1233550800"; d="scan'208";a="33638766" Original-Received: from 69-196-139-226.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.139.226]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 09 Feb 2009 20:58:05 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 39E19806C; Mon, 9 Feb 2009 20:58:05 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <864oz3nyj8.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:30:35 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:108920 Archived-At: MB> Why? Floats are certainly a bit more convenient for the user... > By the same logic, time storage could have been done with floats. Most likely time conses date back to a time were Emacs could be configured without floats. > The reason why it bothers me a bit is that it would be inconsistent > with time storage--now there's two ways of storing large integers. There are already many inconsistencies in this regard. FWIW, I believe that file-attributes can return floats for things like file-size. Stefan