From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 10:03:15 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1, General Lisp changes):
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-22.0.90~7598
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c1a4c74d400c9b90c94599beba474abeeba34f7e;p=emacs.git

(Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1, General Lisp changes):
Mention `expt' handling of negative exponent to return float.
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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index d9367c54234..856888f1236 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -3209,6 +3209,10 @@ the command `undefined'.  (In earlier Emacs versions, it used
 
 ** General Lisp changes:
 
+*** The function `expt' handles negative exponents differently.
+The value for `(expt A B)', if both A and B are integers and B is
+negative, is now a float.  For example: (expt 2 -2) => 0.25.
+
 +++
 *** The function `eql' is now available without requiring the CL package.