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Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch
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Clément Pit-Claudel |
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Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch |
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Tue, 28 Aug 2018 14:00:28 -0400 |
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On 2018-08-28 08:15, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> If “1.0e+INF” is hard to remember, how about defining symbols “+inifinity”
> Pip's suggestion is to use (max) for that.
I think you read Pip's suggestion backward: (max) would return -infinity, not
+infinity. (Which makes sense, since you want max to distribute over list
concatenation)
FWIW, I'm not a fan of using either (min) or (max) to represent minus infinity;
it looks a bit odd. Many other languages have an infinity constant already, so
that pattern is well established; making (max) an alias for either of the
infinities is prone to introducing confusion.
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, (continued)
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2018/08/27
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Pip Cet, 2018/08/27
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Paul Eggert, 2018/08/27
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Ken Raeburn, 2018/08/28
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Helmut Eller, 2018/08/28
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Stefan Monnier, 2018/08/28
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch,
Clément Pit-Claudel <=
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Pip Cet, 2018/08/28
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Herring, Davis, 2018/08/28
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Helmut Eller, 2018/08/29
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Pip Cet, 2018/08/29
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Alan Mackenzie, 2018/08/31
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/08/31
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Alan Mackenzie, 2018/08/31
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Herring, Davis, 2018/08/31
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Stefan Monnier, 2018/08/31
- Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch, Herring, Davis, 2018/08/31