Re: e and pi

[Sam Steingold]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Now, we have a lot of offending (defvar <foo>) in Emacs currently, so we
> will want to fix them, and to get things started, we want to fix the two
> predefined float constants `e' and `pi'.

why does the constant e exist in the first place?
e=exp(1) and that is what people should use instead of the constant.
the compiler should recognize that exp(1) is a constant and compute it at 
compile time.