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bug#39557: 27.0.60; Elisp manual, doc about bignums
From: |
Noam Postavsky |
Subject: |
bug#39557: 27.0.60; Elisp manual, doc about bignums |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:23:43 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (windows-nt) |
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> There's nothing the least bit sarcastic in any of that.
[...]
> avoid attributing malevolence when a simple, constructive reading will
> do. The golden rule implies offering the benefit of the doubt.
Yeah, I didn't intend to attribute malevolence; you wondered how I read
sarcasm (which, even if it might not be the best technique for
communication, isn't the same as ill-intent) in your message, so I
explained.
> Actually, I was just expressing my surprise,
> as Eli usually shepherds new doc sufficiently
> well that such things don't happen. And I
> mean that sincerely, as a compliment.
Although I do believe you meant it that way, I still struggle to read
this as a compliment, even with the added explanation.
> to the technical content - the problem
> reported? Any thoughts on that?
The idea is recommend using eql for comparing integers first, and move
the description of eq and fixnum/bignum distinction to the next
paragraph, right?
And also to document when the reader returns fixnums or bignums. Though
I guess that might instead be solved by making the rule you cited
stronger to something like:
Emacs always represents integers in fixnum range as a fixnum, not a
bignum.
(Assuming that's true, which I believe it is)
- bug#39557: 27.0.60; Elisp manual, doc about bignums, Drew Adams, 2020/02/10
- bug#39557: 27.0.60; Elisp manual, doc about bignums, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/02/11
- bug#39557: 27.0.60; Elisp manual, doc about bignums, Drew Adams, 2020/02/11
- bug#39557: 27.0.60; Elisp manual, doc about bignums, Noam Postavsky, 2020/02/11
- bug#39557: 27.0.60; Elisp manual, doc about bignums, Drew Adams, 2020/02/11
- bug#39557: 27.0.60; Elisp manual, doc about bignums, Noam Postavsky, 2020/02/12
- bug#39557: 27.0.60; Elisp manual, doc about bignums, Drew Adams, 2020/02/12
- bug#39557: 27.0.60; Elisp manual, doc about bignums,
Noam Postavsky <=
- bug#39557: 27.0.60; Elisp manual, doc about bignums, Drew Adams, 2020/02/13
- bug#39557: 27.0.60; Elisp manual, doc about bignums, Richard Stallman, 2020/02/12
- bug#39557: 27.0.60; Elisp manual, doc about bignums, Richard Stallman, 2020/02/13
bug#39557: 27.0.60; Elisp manual, doc about bignums, Paul Eggert, 2020/02/17