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: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:45:26 -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> <83lg91dqd4.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1535316464 24043 195.159.176.226 (26 Aug 2018 20:47:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 20:47:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, pipcet@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 26 22:47:40 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 1fu1wi-00067Z-14 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 22:47:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50347 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fu1yn-0001TK-Va for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:49:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46069) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fu1uz-000839-Th for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:45:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fu1us-0005gP-O4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:45:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50439) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fu1uY-000547-Iz; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:45:26 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fu1uY-0001S7-7T; Sun, 26 Aug 2018 16:45:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Paul Eggert on Sat, 25 Aug 2018 16:27:20 -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:228952 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. ]]] I'm glad this wasn't hard. Should we add something in the Emacs Lisp manual to give advice about cases like this? How about if we make min and max accept, and ignore, nil as argument? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)