From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master adcf904: Add bignum support in Tramp
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 18:37:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871saiqwf7.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a717cd9e-05ca-cd2d-64b1-414254ce2c9e@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Tue, 28 Aug 2018 08:24:39 -0700")
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> Robert Pluim wrote:
>> Then how come NEWS talks about bignump and fixnump?
>
> Because some contributors thought that bignump and fixnump might be
> useful convenience functions for Lisp programmers. They're not, but I
> lost that argument.
They're currently useful to me with the calc bignum conversion, but
won't be needed once thatʼs done, the end result will just use
'integerp'.
> If it were up to me, I wouldn't mention these functions in NEWS or
> document them, as they cause more trouble and confusion than they
> cure. Worrying about the distinction between bignums and fixnums
> unnecessarily complicates Lisp programmers' lives, and we shouldn't
> encourage it.
I agree with that sentiment.
Robert
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2018-08-28 14:40 ` master adcf904: Add bignum support in Tramp Robert Pluim
2018-08-28 15:07 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-28 15:19 ` Robert Pluim
2018-08-28 15:24 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-28 16:37 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
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