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Re: lsh function documentation
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: lsh function documentation |
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Wed, 31 Jan 2024 21:27:33 +0200 |
> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 18:01:17 +0100
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> >>>>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2024, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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> >> 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?
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> > Most uses of it, yes. They should have used ash instead.
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> Only in hindsight, I suppose? Nothing in the old (i.e. pre-bignum)
> documentation suggests any preference for ash.
We consider the latter to be a problem, now fixed.