Re: recent `float' current_column changes

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

   Why not just allow lisp programs to see it too?  I'll bet that if they
   just do the normal sort of arithmetic and call indent-to-column on the
   result they would basically work the same way as they do with an int --
   unless indent-to-column accepts a float, in which case, they'd work
   _better_...

yes, that's the plan.  i think the only computation using columns that might
result in unexpected behavior would be those involving division (for example,
`center-line' or some of the alignment packages).  i'm not prepared to look
into this at the moment (concentrating on using iterators to calculate widths)
but the door is open for experimentation and parallel changes.  (go for it!)

thi