Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 37940b3: min and max now return one of their arguments

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 2017-03-09 11:54, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:25:22 -0500
>>
>> 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))))
> 
> If that's the use case, you will have to use the likes of 'floor'
> anyway, because you cannot control well enough what happens in
> non-trivial calculations involving floats.

Sorry, I don't have an opinion on the larger context discussed here.  I was 
just pointing that it's common in ELisp to expect 'if' not to coerce its 
arguments.

Cheers,
Clément.