From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:30:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: <29f933ac-a6bf-8742-66a7-0a9d6d3e5a88@disroot.org> <09153aed-361d-4f82-d9ac-b502314769ae@cs.ucla.edu> <83lg91dqd4.fsf@gnu.org> <0F8F6E54-176C-48EE-9E7C-7CAC424D0D55@raeburn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1535571828 23745 195.159.176.226 (29 Aug 2018 19:43:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 19:43:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 29 21:43:44 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 1fv6NQ-0005yc-JS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2018 21:43:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44699 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fv6PW-0006OG-R2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:45:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40999) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fv6P5-0006DO-Dq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:45:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fv6AY-0003VQ-NR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:30:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=33275 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fv6AY-0003TW-Fx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:30:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fv68O-0001y8-HZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Aug 2018 21:28:08 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:C+aYi5B9tHUSaI1kxdYfgr6/lm8= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:229064 Archived-At: > Let me amend what I wrote above. I'm not excited about (max) becoming the > common spelling for negative infinity, but I'm fine with changing max to > accept zero arguments and return -infinity in that case (and, indeed, that's > the only value that makes sense to me). Same here, except rather than "I'm fine with" I'd say that I'm in favor of it (for the same reason that I made `apply` work when called with a single argument). > I'd simply prefer to have a more explicit spelling for both infinities, and > if 1.0e+INF if too hard to remember, a new read syntax or a new defconst > would have my preference over (max) and (min). (aol-mode 1) Stefan