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Re: Elisp / C inconsistency for reading "1."
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Stefan |
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Re: Elisp / C inconsistency for reading "1." |
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Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:46:26 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
> More important, it feels wrong coming from a Lisp background, as Common Lisp
> and Scheme both interpret "1." to be a floating point number. I would
> support changing Emacs Lisp to be consistent with common practice, as there
> seems no point to being different and there are advantages to being
> consistent. (Not during the feature freeze though, of course.)
I'd tend to agree, indeed.
Stefan