From: goncholden <goncholden@protonmail.com>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: version> and version>=
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2022 14:27:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D0oDYYgnO6WBbTfbJ-wnFDZPdMMJR18IsNgz5zCqj7S5GoBjA5oTJU_acBTqUonuirEFU0pLpX-nC9W_P6mLwV2EjN4D39qPDDEqNqKbfI=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bkzp2vx8.fsf@gnu.org>
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022 at 2:15 PM, Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:
> goncholden goncholden@protonmail.com writes:
>
> > > `emacs-version' is a string, 28.0 is a float. You cannot compare them. Stefan suggested to use` emacs-major-version' with 28 (both
> > >
> > > integers) instead.
> >
> > It would be convenient if there was a function that could handle
> >
> > floats, so that one can condition not just on a major version, but
> >
> > upon the complete version number.
>
> As said in my other mail, floats are not good for this because in math,
> 1.2 is greater than 1.10 but with versions, 1.10 is greater than 1.2.
> See my other mail: if you really need to check major, minor, and maybe
> even micro version, then use `version<' with the version strings.
I missed that, you are correct then.
> Bye,
> Tassilo
> PS: Could you please teach your mail client not to remove the Re: from
> the subject of replies? Every reply of yours looks like a new
> thread on first sight.
Ok, I thought the Re: should not be there.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-02 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-01 18:01 version> and version>= goncholden
2022-02-01 23:20 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-02-02 3:47 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-02-02 10:21 ` goncholden
2022-02-02 13:38 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-02-02 13:48 ` goncholden
2022-02-02 13:52 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-02-02 14:14 ` goncholden
2022-02-02 14:23 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-02-02 14:15 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-02-02 14:27 ` goncholden [this message]
2022-02-02 14:30 ` Tassilo Horn
2022-02-02 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-02 15:00 ` Yuri Khan
2022-02-02 15:07 ` goncholden
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2022-02-01 14:50 goncholden via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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