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Article #99940Arithmetic
From: Stavros Macrakis
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 1990 20:54
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 1990 20:54
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GNU Emacs 18.55.1 of Tue Oct 31 1989 on marat (hpux) It would be nice to have a full set of safe arithmetic functions. (+ - * / mod abs read), where by "safe" I mean that they give the correct (mathematical) result when possible, and otherwise signal an error. This could be done either by checking for overflows etc., or by implementing bignums (which seems like overkill). Is this planned for v19? -s
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,76a9c6d5c6dc8a71,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-04-09 13:18:15 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ri.osf.fr!macrakis From: macrakis@ri.osf.fr (Stavros Macrakis) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: Arithmetic Message-ID: <9004091253.AA15943@mururoa.imag.fr> Date: 9 Apr 90 20:54:19 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 11 Posted: Mon Apr 9 21:54:19 1990