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From: Stefan <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Oleh Krehel <oleh.krehel@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Elisp / C inconsistency for reading "1."
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:46:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvvbvg919k.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53231298.9090905@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:30:48 -0700")

> More important, it feels wrong coming from a Lisp background, as Common Lisp
> and Scheme both interpret "1." to be a floating point number.  I would
> support changing Emacs Lisp to be consistent with common practice, as there
> seems no point to being different and there are advantages to being
> consistent.  (Not during the feature freeze though, of course.)

I'd tend to agree, indeed.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-14 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-14 12:13 Elisp / C inconsistency for reading "1." Oleh Krehel
2014-03-14 14:30 ` Paul Eggert
2014-03-14 16:46   ` Stefan [this message]
2014-03-15 16:21     ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2014-03-15 16:43       ` David Kastrup
2014-03-15 18:39       ` Simon Leinen
2014-03-16  1:31       ` Paul Eggert

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