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Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer |
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Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:16:52 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> If everything was inside a num64-* namespace and a num64.el package,
>> it's a pretty easy implementation.
>
> I think for bignums to be interesting, they'd have to be native in
> Emacs. It'd suck if you had a number, but had to say
>
> `(num64+ num1 num2)'
>
> if it's a bignum, and
>
> `(+ num1 num2)'
>
> if not. To take a random example.
+ already supports more than one type of number, so it would not be a
problem to add support for yet another one. But that does not require
that Emacs supports bignums everywhere, just like there are already many
places that accept integers but not floats.
Andreas.
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- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, (continued)
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/09/09
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/09/10
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/10
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Leo, 2010/09/10
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/10
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Wojciech Meyer, 2010/09/10
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Stefan Monnier, 2010/09/11
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/09/10
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/10
- bignums (was: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer), Ted Zlatanov, 2010/09/10
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer,
Andreas Schwab <=
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, David Kastrup, 2010/09/10
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/10
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Stefan Monnier, 2010/09/11
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/11
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/09/11
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/11
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Wojciech Meyer, 2010/09/11
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Stefan Monnier, 2010/09/12
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Tom Tromey, 2010/09/10
- Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer, Ted Zlatanov, 2010/09/14