From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:26:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34odxmxfg.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8762ydr5br.fsf@lola.goethe.zz
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> Integers are not transparently promoted to floats depending on size.
> Bignums are somewhat pointless if that isn't the case.
Yup.
> But then integers of equal value are eq (and it is easy enough to need
> to make use of that by using assq and similar). Equal bignums, being
> variable size, can't handily be eq unless they are kept behind hashes
> making sure that at any given time, all bignums of equal value are
> kept in the same storage location.
Well, that's the case in Common Lisp, but it needn't be in Emacs Lisp.
`eq' could just use `=' as the comparison function for bignums. Even
though that would be a non-traditional way of doing it.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-10 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-09 15:16 Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-09 19:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-09 21:58 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-09 22:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-10 3:24 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-10 13:53 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-10 14:01 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-10 14:08 ` Leo
2010-09-10 14:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-10 14:19 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-11 9:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-10 14:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-10 14:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-10 14:38 ` bignums (was: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer) Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-10 15:16 ` Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer Andreas Schwab
2010-09-10 15:22 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-10 15:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2010-09-11 9:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-11 11:57 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-11 15:36 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-11 15:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-11 16:15 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-12 9:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-10 19:28 ` Tom Tromey
2010-09-14 15:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-11 5:52 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-13 11:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-09 22:21 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-09 23:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-09 23:56 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-10 0:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-10 0:17 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-10 8:06 ` Andy Wingo
2010-09-10 10:20 ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-10 10:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-10 12:35 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-10 12:49 ` rfc2047-decode-string in C? Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-10 13:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-10 13:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-11 16:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-10 13:07 ` Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer joakim
2010-09-10 13:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-10 13:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-10 14:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-10 14:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-11 9:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-10 14:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-11 3:18 ` Daniel Pittman
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