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: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 23:37:23 -0400 Message-ID: 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> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1534822650 18561 195.159.176.226 (21 Aug 2018 03:37:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 03:37:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, pipcet@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 21 05:37:25 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 1frxTx-0004gr-38 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2018 05:37:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50478 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frxW1-0005QX-NB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 23:39:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34154) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frxUY-0005Ox-Gp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 23:38:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frxU4-0008VX-IJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 23:37:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50382) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1frxTv-0008MR-Ay; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 23:37:23 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1frxTv-0003Y7-7T; Mon, 20 Aug 2018 23:37:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Paul Eggert on Mon, 20 Aug 2018 00:27:39 -0700) 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:228771 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. ]]] > Also, we should remove the fixnump and bignump functions; these > functions certainly don't need to be in C code and I don't see why > they even need to be present at all. We shouldn't be giving users > the impression that the distinction between fixnums and bignums is > important. Since it does affect behavior in some cases, we should have those functions. We can also ask people to write to emacs-devel to report any time that they find it necessary for code to call them. We might find out about reasons that didn't occur to us, and then maybe then we could make them unnecessary. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)