From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday S Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: e and pi Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:35:39 +0100 Message-ID: References: <8739t9xpt2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284766568 7699 80.91.229.12 (17 Sep 2010 23:36:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 23:36:08 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 18 01:36:06 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwkTM-0000Gw-Ta for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 01:36:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42106 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OwkTM-0004Rh-C6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:36:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46692 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OwkTF-0004RG-Kg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:35:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwkTE-0002eu-IF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:35:57 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:55829) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwkTE-0002eh-BH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:35:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwkT8-0000BM-V5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 01:35:50 +0200 Original-Received: from cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com ([92.232.137.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 01:35:50 +0200 Original-Received: from u.s.reddy by cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 2010 01:35:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:130371 Archived-At: On 9/17/2010 4:11 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Now for people who use such magic numerical > constants often (e.g. in the context of Calc), this may seem like an > obvious no-no, ... Such people can do (defconst e float-e) and happily use it for their favourite constant. So, this is hardly a problem. Cheers, Uday