GNU bug report logs - #39557
27.0.60; Elisp manual, doc about bignums

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Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 23:56:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 27.0.60

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 39557 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 39557 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#39557: 27.0.60; Elisp manual, doc about bignums
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 16:46:53 -0500

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> There seems to be a contradiction here: where we do describe the
> difference between fixnums and bignums, you argue that we shouldn't,
> but then you pick up a place where we don't distinguish between them,
> and you argue that we should...

I think Drew intended the argument that we should distinguish them as a
sarcastic reductio ad absurdum.
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