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

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I usually use 1.0e+INF and -1.0e+INF when I need a neutral element
  > for min and max respectively, rather than most-positive-fixnum.
  > Is there anything wrong with that?

Only that it is a magic sequence that most programmers won't remember.
We could put it in the doc strings and manual.

But perhaps nil is better.

                                        If not, I think we don't even
  > need to change min and max at all.

Why NOT make nil work here?  It would be useful in a number of ways,
I think.  For instance, you could run mapcar with a function
that would produce a number or nil, and nil would mean "ignore this one",
then apply max or min.


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