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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Burton Samograd <bsamograd@interalia.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: most-positive-float, most-negative-float coming up nil
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:12:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvwrbsx28b.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wrbt9gnx.fsf@interalia.com>

> It seems odd that most-positive/negative-fixnum are standard in Emacs
> lisp but not the float versions without requiring cl (plus requiring
> an additional function to be called to initialize them is even more
> odd).  It's not like floats aren't a standard part of the Emacs
> lisp language.

Apparently nobody ever found enough of a need for most-positive-float
in Elisp (and even less so for most-negative-float).


        Stefan



      reply	other threads:[~2011-10-25 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-25 15:59 most-positive-float, most-negative-float coming up nil Burton Samograd
2011-10-25 16:09 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-25 16:15 ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-25 16:31   ` Burton Samograd
2011-10-25 20:12     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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