From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Random832 Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: e Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:58:19 -0400 Message-ID: <87oafhkc90.fsf@fastmail.com> References: <94A87F5A-F2F7-4FFB-9F9E-EC087EB6BAB9@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446127164 22356 80.91.229.3 (29 Oct 2015 13:59:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 13:59:24 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 29 14:59:17 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZrnjW-0005eG-E7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 14:59:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44231 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZrnjV-000679-Qb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:59:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48376) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZrnjT-000673-B4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:59:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZrnjN-0001Cw-MY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:59:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44145) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZrnjN-0001Cs-Fr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:59:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZrnjG-0005UQ-R8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 14:58:58 +0100 Original-Received: from c-68-39-146-59.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([68.39.146.59]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 14:58:58 +0100 Original-Received: from random832 by c-68-39-146-59.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2015 14:58:58 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-68-39-146-59.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VYNHTxwDO3mkI8HuIBehFaE+OMA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:192899 Archived-At: Jean-Christophe Helary writes: > yes, but I was doing tests in ielm and I'm pretty sure I did not type > float-e. It was clearly e, and after seeing e evaluated, I tried pi > (which worked then and works still). (describe-variable 'pi) says it's "Obsolete since Emacs-23.3". The actual removal of e is here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit?id=993687 And it was marked obsolete here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit?id=9e0d4f But you can see from the comments that the writing was always in the wall, since here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit?id=9a0fc3 >+;; It's too inconvenient to make `e' a constant because it's used as >+;; a temporary variable all the time.