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: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 17:30:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <29f933ac-a6bf-8742-66a7-0a9d6d3e5a88@disroot.org> <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> <87tvne7f6e.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 1535491733 6231 195.159.176.226 (28 Aug 2018 21:28:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 21:28:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tom Tromey Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 28 23:28:49 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 1fulXd-0001VF-37 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 23:28:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40121 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fulZj-0002M5-EF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 17:30:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35787) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fulZY-0002KO-N7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 17:30:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fulZW-0004O3-8D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 17:30:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56782) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fulYz-0003Vv-44; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 17:30:15 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fulYy-0006YM-5Z; Tue, 28 Aug 2018 17:30:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87tvne7f6e.fsf@tromey.com> (message from Tom Tromey on Tue, 28 Aug 2018 08:12:57 -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:229028 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. ]]] > How about adding (defconst Infinity 1.0e+INF) to subr.el? (max) is easier to remember. Also, the capital initial makes the name strange. However, I think that making max and min allow nil would be a good change for other reasons. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)