Re: Code for converting between Elisp and Calc floats

[Chong Yidong]

Vincent Belaïche <address@hidden> writes:

> When you use Calc as a library, then you would like it to interact more easily
> with some other piece of code, or simply to write the code more simply when 
> the
> precision you need is only that of a 64bit float: nobody will deny that it is
> simpler to write:
>
> 0.5
>
> instead of
>
> '(float 5 -1)

Could you discuss why this needs built-in support?  It should be
possible to write a Lisp function or macro that automatically converts
Lisp expressions based on Lisp floats into Lisp expressions based on
calc floats.