From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tomas@tuxteam.de Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: e and pi Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:12:04 +0200 Message-ID: <20100918151203.GA18176@tomas> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284822551 15764 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2010 15:09:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:09:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Chong Yidong' , 'Stefan Monnier' , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 18 17:09:09 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Owz2K-0001ow-Rt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:09:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46661 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Owz2K-00034a-5c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:09:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44993 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Owz2D-00034Q-Pm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:09:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Owz2C-0002GT-LG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:09:01 -0400 Original-Received: from alextrapp1.equinoxe.de ([217.22.192.104]:43418 helo=www.elogos.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Owz2C-0002GB-GV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:09:00 -0400 Original-Received: by www.elogos.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 18DD79006D; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:12:04 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:130413 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - `m= ath-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 - -- tom=C3=A1s -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFMlNbDBcgs9XrR2kYRAr9nAJ9UQGEbaXeDYryUBVg2+L1idabiKgCfTeag cpv/sYYM1RKU65CxQObkZ4A=3D =3D+LGZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----