"Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The comment suggests this was for compatibility with Common Lisp.
> We may as well not change it.
i changed `Fexpt' so that:
(expt 2 -2) => 0.25
i'm inclined to leave the change in for (more) mathematical correctness,
and also because w/ the change, the behavior concords w/ the elisp info
page which says:
@defun expt x y
This function returns @var{x} raised to power @var{y}. If both
arguments are integers and @var{y} is positive, the result is an
integer; in this case, overflow causes truncation, so watch out.
@end defun
if someone complains, we can always revert it (and update the docs to
mention the (IMHO) strange behavior).
thi
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