Re: Making 'eq' == 'eql' in bignum branch

[Helmut Eller]

On Mon, Aug 20 2018, Paul Eggert wrote:

> As I recall, Gerd introduced most-positive-fixnum and
> most-negative-fixnum to Emacs Lisp in 2001, as it was a good idea
> taken from Common Lisp. However, fixnump and bignump are not in Common
> Lisp, and we don't need them in Emacs Lisp either. When we're
> reinventing the wheel why add unnecessary gizmos?

Common Lisp doesn't have so many type predicates because it has TYPEP.
Both FIXNUM and BIGNUM are standard types in Common Lisp.  The BIGNUM
type is actually defined as (AND INTEGER (NOT FIXNUM)).  So if you
remove fixnump then at least make typep (and typecase etc.) work with
'fixnum and 'bignum type specifiers.

Helmut