Re: master c290b034e0f 1/2: Move `wholenump` alias definition

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2023 12:02:01 +0200
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> 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.

I'm guessing that was for compatibility with some other Lisp.