From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: About fixnums Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:01:08 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1362207766 31541 80.91.229.3 (2 Mar 2013 07:02:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 07:02:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 02 08:03:10 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UBgTK-0007Q8-9m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Mar 2013 08:03:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34026 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UBgSz-0005xq-5l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Mar 2013 02:02:45 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!dont-email.me!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="31157"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/vr8gJ1vUmdzhByS4jtk9s" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:a9dMzEhPM82ycuX1xIyKbrps1vk= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:197033 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 02:02:27 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89317 Archived-At: In article , Xue Fuqiao wrote: > In (info "(elisp) C Integer Types"): > > * Prefer the Emacs-defined type `EMACS_INT' for representing values > converted to or from Emacs Lisp fixnums, as fixnum arithmetic is > based on `EMACS_INT'. > > What does the "Emacs Lisp fixnum" mean here? I had searched the manual and > web, but I didn't find anything useful. Can anybody help? Thanks. It means just what the words say: a fixnum in Emacs Lisp. Fixnum is the Lisp jargon for fixed-sized integers (as opposed to bignums, which are practically unbounded -- Emacs Lisp doesn't have these). -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***