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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 6457@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6457: 24.0.50; Inappropriate error msg for set-variable
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 07:28:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h868e9h8.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7b9577e9-d8d8-425f-8ff4-e907d86e0caa@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 5 Feb 2014 22:55:07 -0800 (PST)")

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> Or is this problem only present for `set-variable'?  Then it might
>> not be worth fixing.
>
> No, it is a general problem.
>
> It's a problem here because `read-from-minibuffer' reads an
> integer numeral as input, and the value read is effectively a
> floating-point number.
>
> You can see the same thing happen for (format "%S" 999999999).
> That returns the number 999999999.0.
>
> IOW, it is the Lisp reader that reads an integer numeral and
> returns a non-integer number: (not (integerp 999999999)).

I think this has been fixed once and for all in Emacs 27 with the new
bignum support, so I'm closing this bug report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-23  5:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-18 16:06 bug#6457: 24.0.50; Inappropriate error msg for set-variable Drew Adams
2010-06-19 14:43 ` Juri Linkov
2010-06-20 14:47   ` Drew Adams
2014-02-06  0:28     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-06  1:41       ` Glenn Morris
2014-02-06  6:19         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-06  6:37           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-06  6:55             ` Drew Adams
2019-08-23  5:28               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2014-02-06  8:06             ` Glenn Morris
2014-02-06  6:10       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-06  6:28         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-06  8:17           ` Eli Zaretskii

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