GNU bug report logs - #21690
(/ N) should return the reciprocal of N

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: GNU Emacs bug reports <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: (/ N) should return the reciprocal of N
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:11:03 -0700

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Tags: patch

The attached proposed patch is a followup to the recent discussion on 
emacs-devel. We're in feature-freeze now, so it's not a good time to 
apply it. Although I'm sympathetic to Stefan's point that the Common 
Lisp behavior is less logical, it is more useful in practice (as can be 
seen from some uses in the proposed patch) and there is a benefit to 
being compatible with CL.

[0001-N-now-returns-the-reciprocal-of-N.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

Message #8 received at 21690 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 21690 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21690: (/ N) should return the reciprocal of N
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 22:54:27 +0300

> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:11:03 -0700
> 
> We're in feature-freeze now

No, we aren't.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 21690 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21690: (/ N) should return the reciprocal of N
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 13:18:57 -0700

On 10/15/2015 12:54 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
>> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:11:03 -0700
>>
>> We're in feature-freeze now
> No, we aren't.

Ah, sorry, I misremembered Stefan's message of a couple of weeks ago.  
In that case there's no freeze-based objection to installing this change 
now.

Message #16 received at 21690-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: 21690-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21690: (/ N) should return the reciprocal of N
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 18:24:05 -0700

No further comment, so I installed the patch as master commit 
e9af822ac3ddf9644aa4a68e56b0580e133449b2 and am marking this as done.

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