From c1a4c74d400c9b90c94599beba474abeeba34f7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 10:03:15 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (Lisp Changes in Emacs 22.1, General Lisp changes): Mention `expt' handling of negative exponent to return float. --- etc/NEWS | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) 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. -- 2.39.2