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[PATCH] Add the public API of Compat to the core

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Message #127 received at 66554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 66554 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#66554: [PATCH] Add the public API of Compat to the core
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 05:49:03 +0000

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de> writes:
>
>>> If you want to label the `most-positive-fixnum` as a hack, I guess
>>> that's OK but then the comment should clarify what it's referring to.
>>
>> I may be wrong, but I assume that Philip considers the autoload a hack.
>> In this thread we discussed various alternatives to approach this
>> problem, e.g., the package version regexp (another hack), or my naive
>> idea of simply writing 29.1.9999 in the compat.el package header (yet
>> another hack).
>
> IMHO, the "naive" (why naive?) number 9999 is more readable, and in
> practice will be the same as using most-positive-fixnum.  So I'd just
> use that.

We can also use 1.0e+INF, unless there is a reason to avoid non-fixnums
in version strings?

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