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From: | Chong Yidong |
Subject: | Re: Code for converting between Elisp and Calc floats |
Date: | Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:11:16 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Vincent Belaïche <address@hidden> writes: > When you use Calc as a library, then you would like it to interact more easily > with some other piece of code, or simply to write the code more simply when > the > precision you need is only that of a 64bit float: nobody will deny that it is > simpler to write: > > 0.5 > > instead of > > '(float 5 -1) Could you discuss why this needs built-in support? It should be possible to write a Lisp function or macro that automatically converts Lisp expressions based on Lisp floats into Lisp expressions based on calc floats.
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