From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 19:19:50 +0300 Message-ID: <83h8jpdn89.fsf@gnu.org> References: <29f933ac-a6bf-8742-66a7-0a9d6d3e5a88@disroot.org> <49d8ba62-c9a5-9203-d882-8e900b441ff3@cs.ucla.edu> <8e0320d9-e0d0-2b57-57cc-2df4399f133c@cs.ucla.edu> <87lgaio7xd.fsf@tromey.com> <877em1cb0i.fsf@tromey.com> <765767b2-d2e5-a9a6-f724-d58ecf4847bb@cs.ucla.edu> <76081b5d-8c10-0a37-2c97-d4864c0faa80@cs.ucla.edu> <09153aed-361d-4f82-d9ac-b502314769ae@cs.ucla.edu> <83k1oldqao.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534781921 8362 195.159.176.226 (20 Aug 2018 16:18:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:18:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 20 18:18:36 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1frmt2-00022b-Bu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 18:18:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48089 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frmv8-0007IL-Nn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:20:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60388) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frmuO-0006bH-CI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:20:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frmuI-0006Pt-Of for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:20:00 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37190) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frmuI-0006Pd-J9; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:19:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4165 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1frmuG-0005gn-MX; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:19:54 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 20 Aug 2018 11:26:14 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228739 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 11:26:14 -0400 > > > I don't think we should go as far as removing these functions, as they > > can still be useful in some situations. Let's not rush. > > Agreed. How 'bout we first try to actually make use of bignums? > E.g. changing Calc to use them instead of its own implementation of bignums? Yes, collecting actual experience with bignums is a good way of figuring out what is important and what's less so.