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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#32252: [PATCH] %o and %x now format signed numbers |
Date: | Thu, 26 Jul 2018 00:26:43 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 |
Brett Gilio wrote:
I wonder what you mean by "just works" in contrast to what Eli suggested about the inconsistency in behavior between the different function definitions for fixnums and bignums.
I meant that ordinarily Emacs Lisp programmers should not worry whether an integer's internal representation is a bignum or a fixnum. Functions like +, -, *, /, format, read, etc. should accept and generate mathematically correct integer values regardless of whether their inputs are fixnums or bignums. If an integer fits in a fixnum it is presumably represented that way, but by and large Emacs programs should not care about this detail.
That is how other Lisps do it, it works well for them, and Emacs Lisp should do likewise.
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