From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Inconsistency: sometimes an integer, sometimes a float Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:18:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4c73de32-5121-436f-b5e2-53aaa545fd9a@default> References: <4ce73e74-a069-4e8d-b606-5aa76b848940@googlegroups.com> <878uu5ji1r.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390612710 26410 80.91.229.3 (25 Jan 2014 01:18:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 01:18:30 +0000 (UTC) To: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 25 02:18:37 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1W6rtL-0006ED-T0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 02:18:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49496 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6rtL-0004X4-Bv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:18:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43045) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6rt3-0004Wt-CL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:18:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6rsw-0001VT-93 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:18:17 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:27637) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W6rsw-0001Uf-2O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:18:10 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id s0P1I7TS002408 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 25 Jan 2014 01:18:08 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7021.oracle.com (aserz7021.oracle.com [141.146.126.230]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s0P1I5nH025810 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 25 Jan 2014 01:18:05 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0009.oracle.com (abhmp0009.oracle.com [141.146.116.15]) by aserz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s0P1I4x8025804; Sat, 25 Jan 2014 01:18:04 GMT In-Reply-To: <878uu5ji1r.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95638 Archived-At: > Namely, emacs numeric datatypes are limited to fixnums and floats. But see this emacs-devel discussion about bignums a few years back: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-03/msg00190.html So far, that hasn't gone anywhere. But perhaps someone here will volunteer...