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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 37940b3: min and max now return one of their ar
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Clément Pit-Claudel |
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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 37940b3: min and max now return one of their arguments |
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Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:25:22 -0500 |
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On 2017-03-09 11:10, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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>> More generally, although people expect statically typed languages to
>> convert alternatives to float (e.g., C programmers expect (1.5 > 2 ? 1.5
>> : 2) to return 2.0 not 2), dynamically typed languages are different:
>> Lisp programmers expect (if (> 1.5 2) 1.5 2) to return 2 not 2.0.
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> I'm not sure this is so, and anyway getting 2.0 should not matter in
> Emacs Lisp.
I think it does matter sometimes, as some bits of Emacs explicitly distinguish
between floats and ints (for example I might write `(face (:height ,(if
use-absolute-size 120 1.2))))
Clément.