From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 09:01:23 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <970fcb86-3813-eb06-3831-14c41992a0c7@cs.ucla.edu> References: <29f933ac-a6bf-8742-66a7-0a9d6d3e5a88@disroot.org> <49d8ba62-c9a5-9203-d882-8e900b441ff3@cs.ucla.edu> <8e0320d9-e0d0-2b57-57cc-2df4399f133c@cs.ucla.edu> <87lgaio7xd.fsf@tromey.com> <877em1cb0i.fsf@tromey.com> <765767b2-d2e5-a9a6-f724-d58ecf4847bb@cs.ucla.edu> <76081b5d-8c10-0a37-2c97-d4864c0faa80@cs.ucla.edu> <09153aed-361d-4f82-d9ac-b502314769ae@cs.ucla.edu> <83k1oldqao.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534781731 26228 195.159.176.226 (20 Aug 2018 16:15:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:15:31 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, pipcet@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 20 18:15:27 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1frmpy-0006hY-Ih for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 18:15:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48055 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frms4-0004rH-UD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:17:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56719) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frmoh-00010r-VC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:14:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frmcb-0002M0-JW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:01:38 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:51004) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frmcX-0002GR-PP; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 12:01:33 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66DE0160E47; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 09:01:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id apuxwJ0Fi6yI; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 09:01:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C39D160E48; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 09:01:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id lFm9e1-L5N1t; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 09:01:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [47.154.30.119]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 19B3C160E47; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 09:01:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83k1oldqao.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228737 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > I don't think we should go as far as removing these functions, as they > can still be useful in some situations. 'still'? They were just introduced a week ago. No user code is using them. Why push them onto users? It's a step in the wrong direction.