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Re: current-time and GMP
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Helmut Eller |
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Re: current-time and GMP |
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Wed, 29 Aug 2018 23:10:45 +0200 |
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On Wed, Aug 29 2018, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> so that future Emacs versions can support a new
>> format where B is the timestamp resolution.
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> Right, I think (INTEGER-TIMESTAMP . RESOLUTION) would be a nice
> representation. We can additionally (and temporarily) signal an
> error/warning if INTEGER-TIMESTAMP (and/or RESOLUTION) is "too small"
> (indicating a very likely use of the deprecated (HOGH . LOW)
> representation).
I think it would better to finally use an opaque type. Say a struct
that prints like #<timestamp 2018-08-29 23:05:25.325602+02> along with a
constructor like (ticks-to-timestamp TICKS TICKS-PER-SECOND TIMEZONE).
Helmut