From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Oleh Krehel <oleh.krehel@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Elisp / C inconsistency for reading "1."
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:30:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53231298.9090905@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ1SQWC8NvC-GyGzb+EgZ2AADzqG0Wc1Z1dcUQcdE=c-eCHoOQ@mail.gmail.com>
Oleh Krehel wrote:
> I understand that it's documented in the manual that "1." is an
> integer and not a float, but this feels very wrong coming from a C
> background.
More important, it feels wrong coming from a Lisp background, as Common
Lisp and Scheme both interpret "1." to be a floating point number. I
would support changing Emacs Lisp to be consistent with common practice,
as there seems no point to being different and there are advantages to
being consistent. (Not during the feature freeze though, of course.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-14 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-14 12:13 Elisp / C inconsistency for reading "1." Oleh Krehel
2014-03-14 14:30 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2014-03-14 16:46 ` Stefan
2014-03-15 16:21 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2014-03-15 16:43 ` David Kastrup
2014-03-15 18:39 ` Simon Leinen
2014-03-16 1:31 ` Paul Eggert
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