From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Helmut Eller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 11:11:46 +0200 Message-ID: References: <29f933ac-a6bf-8742-66a7-0a9d6d3e5a88@disroot.org> <765767b2-d2e5-a9a6-f724-d58ecf4847bb@cs.ucla.edu> <76081b5d-8c10-0a37-2c97-d4864c0faa80@cs.ucla.edu> <09153aed-361d-4f82-d9ac-b502314769ae@cs.ucla.edu> <83lg91dqd4.fsf@gnu.org> <0F8F6E54-176C-48EE-9E7C-7CAC424D0D55@raeburn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1535447436 2569 195.159.176.226 (28 Aug 2018 09:10:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 09:10:36 +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 Aug 28 11:10:32 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 1fua17-0000WZ-Hu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 11:10:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37025 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fua3D-0002jT-S3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 05:12:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43584) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fua2b-0002jI-S0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 05:12:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fua2W-0002Ye-Ub for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 05:12:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=48703 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fua2W-0002Y8-MH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 05:11:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fua0O-000804-AQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 11:09:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:HTepTwQRMUXKa8jTLdu4yr1pHtM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] 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:229003 Archived-At: On Tue, Aug 28 2018, Ken Raeburn wrote: > If “1.0e+INF” is hard to remember, how about defining symbols > “+inifinity” and “-inifinity” (and if you want to get fancy with the > Unicode, +∞ and -∞) with the appropriate numeric values? I kind of > like the nil idea too. There is already most-positive-float. To bad that those "constants" need to be set with cl-float-limits. Helmut