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Re: lsh function documentation
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Ulrich Mueller |
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Re: lsh function documentation |
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Wed, 31 Jan 2024 18:01:17 +0100 |
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>>>>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2024, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> It's not clear to me what the message "most uses turn out to be
>> mistakes" tries to communicate. Was it a mistake to use lsh in code
>> written in the pre-bignum era?
> Most uses of it, yes. They should have used ash instead.
Only in hindsight, I suppose? Nothing in the old (i.e. pre-bignum)
documentation suggests any preference for ash.
Ulrich