bug#66554: [PATCH] Add the public API of Compat to the core

[Philip Kaludercic]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

> Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de> writes:
>
>>> If you want to label the `most-positive-fixnum` as a hack, I guess
>>> that's OK but then the comment should clarify what it's referring to.
>>
>> I may be wrong, but I assume that Philip considers the autoload a hack.
>> In this thread we discussed various alternatives to approach this
>> problem, e.g., the package version regexp (another hack), or my naive
>> idea of simply writing 29.1.9999 in the compat.el package header (yet
>> another hack).
>
> IMHO, the "naive" (why naive?) number 9999 is more readable, and in
> practice will be the same as using most-positive-fixnum.  So I'd just
> use that.

We can also use 1.0e+INF, unless there is a reason to avoid non-fixnums
in version strings?