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From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Chong Yidong' <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
	'Stefan Monnier' <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: e and pi
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:12:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100918151203.GA18176@tomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F99D50BB46EB4F908E6321EA6836A568@us.oracle.com>

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On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 09:14:57AM -0700, Drew Adams wrote:

[...]

> `float-e' is a longer name, but it is silly - this is not about whether the
> value is a  float.  The name should say what the constant means/is - `math-e' or
> whatever [...]

+1 for math-e

Those are constants in some hypothetical "math" package.

(Besides, float-e reminds me fatally of Hungarian notation, but of
course not everyone has to share my allergies :)

Regards
- -- tomás
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-18 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-16 13:25 e and pi Stefan Monnier
2010-09-16 13:44 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-09-16 15:37   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-16 13:47 ` Leo
2010-09-16 15:39   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-16 14:27 ` Helmut Eller
2010-09-16 15:44   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-16 18:52     ` Helmut Eller
2010-09-16 14:44 ` Jason Rumney
2010-09-16 22:54 ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-17  0:04   ` Deniz Dogan
2010-09-17  0:14   ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-17  7:00   ` David Kastrup
2010-09-17  8:09   ` Simon Leinen
2010-09-17  8:15     ` David Kastrup
2010-09-17  9:06       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-17  9:21         ` David Kastrup
2010-09-17  9:47   ` Helmut Eller
2010-09-17 15:11   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-17 15:22     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-17 15:56       ` Helmut Eller
2010-09-17 22:13         ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-17 15:44     ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-17 15:50     ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-17 16:06       ` Wojciech Meyer
2010-09-17 16:18       ` Helmut Eller
2010-09-17 16:45         ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-17 17:14           ` Glenn Morris
2010-09-18 10:01         ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-18 10:21           ` Helmut Eller
2010-09-18 11:07             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-18 11:26               ` Helmut Eller
2010-09-18 10:50           ` David Kastrup
2010-09-18 11:09             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-18 14:27               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-09-18 14:32               ` Andreas Schwab
2010-09-18 15:11           ` Drew Adams
2010-09-17 22:17       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-18  1:10         ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-18  8:30           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-18 19:10             ` Chong Yidong
2010-09-18 21:37               ` Uday S Reddy
2010-09-19  0:57                 ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 13:43           ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-09-18 14:53             ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-18 15:01               ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-18 16:00                 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-19 10:07               ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-09-17 16:14     ` Drew Adams
2010-09-18 15:12       ` tomas [this message]
2010-09-18 17:52         ` David Kastrup
2010-09-19 19:13           ` tomas
2010-09-17 23:35     ` Uday S Reddy
2010-09-17 16:55 ` Sam Steingold
2010-09-17 22:16   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-17 22:55     ` Drew Adams
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-09-17  4:20 MON KEY
2010-09-18  5:58 MON KEY
2010-09-18 14:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-09-19  2:03   ` MON KEY
2010-09-18 16:07 ` David De La Harpe Golden

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