Re: Pushing the `gnus-range-*' functions down into the C layer

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Integers are not transparently promoted to floats depending on size.
> Bignums are somewhat pointless if that isn't the case.

Yup.

> But then integers of equal value are eq (and it is easy enough to need
> to make use of that by using assq and similar).  Equal bignums, being
> variable size, can't handily be eq unless they are kept behind hashes
> making sure that at any given time, all bignums of equal value are
> kept in the same storage location.

Well, that's the case in Common Lisp, but it needn't be in Emacs Lisp.
`eq' could just use `=' as the comparison function for bignums.  Even
though that would be a non-traditional way of doing it.

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  address@hidden * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen