From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Burton Samograd Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: most-positive-float, most-negative-float coming up nil Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:59:16 -0600 Message-ID: <877h3tawq3.fsf@interalia.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319558458 4940 80.91.229.12 (25 Oct 2011 16:00:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:00:58 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 25 18:00:54 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RIjQs-0004UD-OO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:00:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52519 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RIjQs-0008Vj-7m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:00:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44700) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RIjQe-00088m-Ag for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:00:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RIjQb-00081k-Rn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:00:40 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:32799) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RIjQa-000811-RO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:00:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RIjQZ-0004Mz-5p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:00:35 +0200 Original-Received: from 209.89.22.115 ([209.89.22.115]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:00:35 +0200 Original-Received: from bsamograd by 209.89.22.115 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:00:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.89.22.115 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uy0fg0KJduEonSZIOi2o0b1ANqA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145519 Archived-At: Version: "GNU Emacs 24.0.90.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of 2011-10-07 on bsamograd-ubuntu" Just playing around with emacs lisp and I thought I would try the most-positive/most-negative variables to see numeric range. most-positive-fixnum 2305843009213693951 most-negative-fixnum -2305843009213693952 most-positive-float nil most-negative-float nil Any reason why the float values are coming up nil? -- Burton Samograd