From: John Task <q01@disroot.org>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [NonGNU Elpa] New package: ETT
Date: Wed, 03 May 2023 15:06:13 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <865y99b824.fsf@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87a5ylcqq6.fsf@posteo.net
Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
> If that is so, I would explain that in the documentation string, but
> what I wonder is why if condition is needed. All you basically do is
> avoid converting num1 to a float, and the result remains a integer, in
> some cases.
Oh, I get what you mean now. Well, back when I coded this I prefered
the result being an integer when the result was exact. It simplified
some maths for me. However, nowadays this function is used only four
times in the code, so I probably don't need that fallback anymore.
> While this will calculate the values in constant time,
>
> (list (floor time 60) (% time 60))
>
> a loop will always take more iterations depending on the value of the input:
>
> (let ((hr 0))
> (while (>= time 60)
> (setq hr (1+ hr)
> time (- time 60)))
> (list hr time))
Amazing. Thanks!
Best regards.
next reply other threads:[~2023-05-03 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-03 18:06 John Task [this message]
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2023-05-03 17:14 [NonGNU Elpa] New package: ETT John Task
2023-05-03 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-03 15:29 John Task
2023-05-03 16:57 ` Sam Steingold
2023-05-03 15:02 John Task
2023-05-03 16:41 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-03 14:07 John Task
2023-05-03 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-02 21:21 John Task
2023-05-03 6:08 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-03 6:11 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-03 7:12 ` Yuri Khan
2023-05-03 11:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-01 18:17 John Task
2023-03-01 17:46 John Task
2023-03-02 4:33 ` Richard Stallman
2023-03-02 10:08 ` Holger Schurig
2023-03-02 14:50 ` q01
2023-03-02 15:55 ` John Task
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