Re: e

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

Thank you for the references (Drew too).

Since al this happened in the same day I guess I changed of version without 
realizing it (like the OSX standard version and then the brew version).

Jean-Christophe 

> On Oct 29, 2015, at 22:58, Random832 <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Jean-Christophe Helary <address@hidden> writes:
>> yes, but I was doing tests in ielm and I'm pretty sure I did not type
>> float-e. It was clearly e, and after seeing e evaluated, I tried pi
>> (which worked then and works still).
> 
> (describe-variable 'pi) says it's "Obsolete since Emacs-23.3".
> 
> The actual removal of e is here:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit?id=993687
> And it was marked obsolete here:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit?id=9e0d4f
> 
> But you can see from the comments that the writing was always in the
> wall, since here:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit?id=9a0fc3
>> +;; It's too inconvenient to make `e' a constant because it's used as
>> +;; a temporary variable all the time.
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>