From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: e and pi Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:52:57 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87y6az6irq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <20100918151203.GA18176@tomas> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284832757 22851 80.91.229.12 (18 Sep 2010 17:59:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:59:17 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 18 19:59:15 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox1gw-00062Q-BI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:59:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49173 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ox1gv-0003O7-Fz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:59:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50621 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ox1gm-00036J-Dc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:59:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox1cy-000314-24 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:55:09 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:60881) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox1cx-000310-Sx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:55:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ox1cu-0004GN-E6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:55:04 +0200 Original-Received: from p508edaf8.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.142.218.248]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:55:04 +0200 Original-Received: from dak by p508edaf8.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:55:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508edaf8.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ICrAkCjCba+soLB9gRK6DwwSJZY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:130430 Archived-At: tomas@tuxteam.de writes: > On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 09:14:57AM -0700, Drew Adams wrote: > > [...] > >> `float-e' is a longer name, but it is silly - this is not about whether the >> value is a float. The name should say what the constant means/is - `math-e' or >> whatever [...] > > +1 for math-e > > Those are constants in some hypothetical "math" package. calc is not hypothetical. It already occupies the math- prefix. math-e-cache is a variable defined in `calc-ext.el'. Its value is (float (bigpos 9045 2845 2818 2718) -15) math-e is a compiled Lisp function in `calc-ext.el'. (math-e) Not documented. [back] > (Besides, float-e reminds me fatally of Hungarian notation, but of > course not everyone has to share my allergies :) > > Regards > -- tomás -- David Kastrup