From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:48:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <29f933ac-a6bf-8742-66a7-0a9d6d3e5a88@disroot.org> <83bmecy6fx.fsf@gnu.org> <0d3175d8-d996-651e-b221-71978bde3a65@cs.ucla.edu> <87tvpdnzgy.fsf@tromey.com> <4c2a814f-c254-29e5-39cf-11b5f2e5c9c8@cs.ucla.edu> <49d8ba62-c9a5-9203-d882-8e900b441ff3@cs.ucla.edu> <8e0320d9-e0d0-2b57-57cc-2df4399f133c@cs.ucla.edu> <87lgaio7xd.fsf@tromey.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531349228 14969 195.159.176.226 (11 Jul 2018 22:47:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 22:47:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 12 00:47:04 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 1fdNt1-0003nF-Jl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 00:47:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55704 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdNv8-0006Sg-9b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:49:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47060) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdNuy-0006Pu-Bj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:49:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdNuv-0007Fk-T0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:49:04 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60212) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdNuc-0006r1-GY; Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:48:42 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fdNuc-0001NS-4o; Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:48:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87lgaio7xd.fsf@tromey.com> (message from Tom Tromey on Tue, 10 Jul 2018 19:52:30 -0600) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:227263 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Well, for one thing, it's simpler to explain that there are just > integers. In fact after working on the docs for this I think it would > be better if bignums were interned so that eq would work. Simplifying the documentation is often a good reason to change the Emacs Lisp language. But it is not automatically decisive. In this case, there may be important advantages on the other side too. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)