GNU bug report logs - #57129
29.0.50; Improve behavior of conditionals in Eshell

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: jporterbugs <at> gmail.com, larsi <at> gnus.org, bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org, 57129 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bruno <at> clisp.org
Subject: bug#57129: 29.0.50; Improve behavior of conditionals in Eshell
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 20:56:10 +0300

> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 10:30:54 -0700
> Cc: bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, 57129 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>  jporterbugs <at> gmail.com, bruno <at> clisp.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> 
> On 8/16/22 10:04, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > That "finite number" of 62^6 sounds pretty close to infinity to me!
> 
> It's only 57 billion or so. That's not infinity

Yeah, right.

> Since we have the patch to prevent it, why not install it?

Because it isn't needed, and is a weird thing to do.  It also slows
down make-temp-file, especially when a session has a lot of buffers
and with remote file names.  So thanks, but no, thanks.

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