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Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch
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Pip Cet |
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Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch |
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Tue, 28 Aug 2018 02:25:20 +0000 |
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 1:50 AM Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> wrote:
> But anyway, as Richard implies, it's a read syntax that's strangely
> difficult to remember. Would it make sense to have a variable like
> `positive-infinity' (etc) or `math-positive-infinity'? Or perhaps we'll
> all start remembering it after seeing it sprinkled throughout the source
> code after a while.
How about making (min) = 1.0e+INF and (max) = -1.0e+INF? That would be
easier to type, and it's mathematically correct. We could even
optimize it in the bytecode compiler.
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, (continued)
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Richard Stallman, 2018/08/27
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Paul Eggert, 2018/08/27
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Tom Tromey, 2018/08/28
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Richard Stallman, 2018/08/28
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/08/28
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Richard Stallman, 2018/08/29
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/08/28
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Stefan Monnier, 2018/08/28
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/08/29
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2018/08/27
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch,
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- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Paul Eggert, 2018/08/27
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Ken Raeburn, 2018/08/28
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Helmut Eller, 2018/08/28
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Stefan Monnier, 2018/08/28
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/08/28
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Pip Cet, 2018/08/28
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Herring, Davis, 2018/08/28
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Helmut Eller, 2018/08/29
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Pip Cet, 2018/08/29
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Alan Mackenzie, 2018/08/31