From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John Wiegley" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: current-time and GMP Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 22:51:35 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1535608926 1659 195.159.176.226 (30 Aug 2018 06:02:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 06:02:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.91 (darwin) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "T.V Raman" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 30 08:02:02 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 1fvG1p-0000Jk-Q7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 08:02:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47224 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fvG3w-0004Oh-3N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 02:04:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50172) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fvG2i-00037E-DC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 02:02:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fvFux-000579-Hd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 01:54:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39098) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fvFux-000575-E0; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 01:54:55 -0400 Original-Received: from auth1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.227]:60111) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fvFux-0007YR-3V; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 01:54:55 -0400 Original-Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailauth.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5EB721F61; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 01:54:54 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mailfrontend1 ([10.202.2.162]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 30 Aug 2018 01:54:54 -0400 X-ME-Proxy: X-ME-Sender: Original-Received: from localhost (76-234-69-149.lightspeed.frokca.sbcglobal.net [76.234.69.149]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 5C3E4E455C; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 01:54:54 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (T. V. Raman's message of "Wed, 29 Aug 2018 19:42:04 -0700") Mail-Followup-To: "T.V Raman" , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:229089 Archived-At: >>>>> "TVR" == T V Raman writes: TVR> In addition to the issues you raise, the time- related functions are hard TVR> to discover/remember because of how they're named etc --- one possibility TVR> would be to leave them as is and write a new library alongside it that TVR> handled it better. I would have no problem supporting this. time-ng.el! -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2