all messages for Emacs-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: lsh function documentation
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 18:01:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uv879xwrm@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86ttmt1mbc.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 31 Jan 2024 18:48:07 +0200")

>>>>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2024, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> It's not clear to me what the message "most uses turn out to be
>> mistakes" tries to communicate. Was it a mistake to use lsh in code
>> written in the pre-bignum era?

> Most uses of it, yes.  They should have used ash instead.

Only in hindsight, I suppose? Nothing in the old (i.e. pre-bignum)
documentation suggests any preference for ash.

Ulrich



  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-31 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-30 11:34 lsh function documentation Ulrich Mueller
2024-01-31 14:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-31 16:15   ` Ulrich Mueller
2024-01-31 16:48     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-31 17:01       ` Ulrich Mueller [this message]
2024-01-31 19:27         ` Eli Zaretskii

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=uv879xwrm@gentoo.org \
    --to=ulm@gentoo.org \
    --cc=eliz@gnu.org \
    --cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.