From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>,
Philipp Stephani <phst@google.com>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: master 64109fcae7 2/3: indent-for-tab-command: Deal with large point or modiff values.
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 14:55:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzgnudy2i.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkTWqCjcdSSEq6vTBQJQ=Orra2-ATxHOv_N_UXM+OsMZ-A@mail.gmail.com> (Philipp Stephani's message of "Mon, 17 Jan 2022 18:23:07 +0100")
>> You could use '=' here, no, just to emphasise the point that these are integers?
> Yeah, they have identical semantics for integers. I tend to prefer eql
> since its overall semantics are simpler
Agreed. `=` can signal an error and obeys the NaN corner cases as
dictated by IEEE so I usually prefer `eql`.
> (but the manual disagrees and says that = should be preferred).
Can't agree on everything.
> Iʼm a simple man: I can retain the difference between `eq' and
> 'equal', but throwing `eql' into the mix is just too much :-)
It's easy: just always use `eql` instead of `eq`.
They only differ in two cases:
- `eql` gives you the answer you expected and `eq` gives an answer that
baffles you.
- your code is *really* naughty.
`eq` can be marginally faster, but the difference is so small that it's
only noticeable when it's called from C in a tight loop, like maybe when
comparing `memq` and `memql` but not when calling `eq` vs `eql` from
ELisp where the actual overhead of interpreting the byte code is large
enough to dwarf the difference of the execution of the op itself.
Stefan
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2022-01-17 13:38 ` master 64109fcae7 2/3: indent-for-tab-command: Deal with large point or modiff values Robert Pluim
2022-01-17 17:23 ` Philipp Stephani
2022-01-17 17:29 ` Robert Pluim
2022-01-17 19:55 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2022-01-17 21:35 ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-01-17 22:25 ` Stefan Monnier
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