From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Elisp / C inconsistency for reading "1." Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:46:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <53231298.9090905@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1394815600 16198 80.91.229.3 (14 Mar 2014 16:46:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:46:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Oleh Krehel , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 14 17:46:49 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WOVFv-00086H-6a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:46:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45972 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WOVFu-0005Rg-5S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:46:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49889) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WOVFi-0004os-Q2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:46:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WOVFb-0002C3-GD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:46:34 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:51844) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WOVFb-0002Bz-Co for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:46:27 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFMCpZ3/2dsb2JhbABEDr8AF3OCHgEBBAFWIwULCzQSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDjhiWYoFegjla X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFMCpZ3/2dsb2JhbABEDr8AF3OCHgEBBAFWIwULCzQSFBgNJIgeBsEtkQoDjhiWYoFegjla X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="52113463" Original-Received: from 76-10-150-119.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.150.119]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 14 Mar 2014 12:46:26 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id AF1AA60472; Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:46:26 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <53231298.9090905@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:30:48 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:170366 Archived-At: > More important, it feels wrong coming from a Lisp background, as Common Lisp > and Scheme both interpret "1." to be a floating point number. I would > support changing Emacs Lisp to be consistent with common practice, as there > seems no point to being different and there are advantages to being > consistent. (Not during the feature freeze though, of course.) I'd tend to agree, indeed. Stefan