Re: view/edit large files

[Stefan Monnier]

MB> Why?  Floats are certainly a bit more convenient for the user...
> By the same logic, time storage could have been done with floats.

Most likely time conses date back to a time were Emacs could be
configured without floats.

> The reason why it bothers me a bit is that it would be inconsistent
> with time storage--now there's two ways of storing large integers.

There are already many inconsistencies in this regard.  FWIW, I believe
that file-attributes can return floats for things like file-size.


        Stefan