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Re: master c290b034e0f 1/2: Move `wholenump` alias definition
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Mattias Engdegård |
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Re: master c290b034e0f 1/2: Move `wholenump` alias definition |
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Sun, 3 Sep 2023 12:02:01 +0200 |
3 sep. 2023 kl. 11.54 skrev Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>:
> I didn't know about this function (even though it appears to go back to
> Emacs 19), but it might be confusing to some people. In German "Ganze
> Zahlen" (literally "whole numbers") is the term for integers, but
> apparently Wikipedia[0] mentions that the term is ambiguous and might
> refer both to ℤ and ℕ. Is there anything that can be done about this?
Not a lot, for compatibility reasons. I agree completely about the uselessness
of this alias and its poor naming.
(A useful definition for something named `wholenump` might be a function
returning t for floats that are whole numbers, such as -3.0.)
- Re: master c290b034e0f 1/2: Move `wholenump` alias definition, Philip Kaludercic, 2023/09/03
- Re: master c290b034e0f 1/2: Move `wholenump` alias definition,
Mattias Engdegård <=
- Re: master c290b034e0f 1/2: Move `wholenump` alias definition, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/09/03
- Re: master c290b034e0f 1/2: Move `wholenump` alias definition, Mattias Engdegård, 2023/09/03
- Re: master c290b034e0f 1/2: Move `wholenump` alias definition, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/09/03
- Re: master c290b034e0f 1/2: Move `wholenump` alias definition, Philip Kaludercic, 2023/09/03
- Re: master c290b034e0f 1/2: Move `wholenump` alias definition, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/09/03
- Re: master c290b034e0f 1/2: Move `wholenump` alias definition, Stefan Kangas, 2023/09/03