From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding a generic mathematical library Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 12:16:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8734o9sdig.fsf@posteo.net> <87wmllqq66.fsf@posteo.net> <87plrdqnhc.fsf@posteo.net> <87le21qldj.fsf_-_@posteo.net> <87r0bssde4.fsf@web.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23811"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 19 19:41:28 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sUrbi-0005y6-U0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2024 19:41:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sUrbY-0007fv-8h; Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:41:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sUrbM-0007Mq-2m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:41:04 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sUrbL-0005YZ-M5; Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:41:03 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=3Ke6UTwHe//zi+j+4CkNxHc/25jDOJDdFcMiqUMTBI4=; b=Uz4x5cuFodQJ El/GJdR278l5t3hEhPsIanHVKSQwB30Uumuurzo/RLLG9PuXmr5rFk7AjUnnm0tmK9dFv8xYTkKrg XgdS1RcoJrvE5VFpS5TRF2hxFgySqwPi8/l7ZPHgItUtq1Bq0qO3qy/8UJikB7Ly1kuUrkezF7mw3 1JFoedlY34paH01Jqq1VXqi1BixpGiklrS1gabbPCqOXOBtU1vXr3VrB2O4AU/0+6CxaXRHvsNP7Z qVkODojSuDFln21KqXqhNUjGvqasMR/nY2NsuQRyuK+wS5y7Ra4HpsFqipAck8uaPZYmC3shSyOkZ +EtztW+q+JP4MQF5ynSLoA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sUqHp-000726-JG; Fri, 19 Jul 2024 12:16:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87r0bssde4.fsf@web.de> (emacs-devel@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:321821 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. ]]] > Have we considered to write a bit of glue code that would make it easier > and more convenient to use the things defined in Calc? Why invest all of > the time again? If a calc function includes a substanial amount of code to do a specific kind of calculation, we could extract that part as a separate function and put it in a suitable place. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)