Re: [Emacs-diffs] master dfed333: Remove fixnum restriction on some display vars

[Paul Eggert]

On 5/22/19 2:06 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Rather than convert to bignum, we should either crash or signal
> a `hallelujah` error, depending on whether you think this is due to
> a bug or too a supranatural power.

Crashing would be too strong, as one could then crash Emacs simply via 
(setq tab-width (1+ most-positive-fixnum)). For the variables involved 
with this patch, there should be no need to crash as it should be OK to 
treat bignums as out-of-range fixnums - e.g., a bignum tab-width is 
treated as if it were 8, which is how an out-of-range fixnum tab-width 
is treated.

I'm not a fan of invoking supernatural powers either....