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RE: e


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: e
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 06:59:38 -0700 (PDT)

> >> I was under the impression that e evaluated to 2.71828 or something in
> >> Emacs.
> >
> > It's called float-e.
> 
> yes, but I was doing tests in ielm and I'm pretty sure I did not type float-
> e. It was clearly e, and after seeing e evaluated, I tried pi (which worked
> then and works still).

Your memory is correct.  This was changed in Emacs 24.  In Emacs 23 and prior,
`e' is a predefined "constant".  This is now called `float-e'.



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