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| From | Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.lisp, alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: boxing all integers (was Re: Resources to learn common lisp?) |
| Date | Mon, 31 Aug 2026 03:11:06 -0300 |
| Organization | Primarily biological and memetic |
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Alan Bawden <alan@csail.mit.edu> writes: > Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> writes: >> I had no idea! Never having used it, I had always assumed that MACLISP >> shared the behavior of things like SBCL, Smalltalk, and recent versions >> of Python — transparently overflowing from fixnums to bignums. > > Note that MacLisp _does_ have "transparent-overflow" arithmetic, you > just have to use `PLUS`, `TIMES` and `DIFFERENCE` instead of `+`, `*` > and `-`. The `+` family is fixnum-only, but the `PLUS` family handles > all types of numbers. I see! Thank you for explaining. Kragen
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boxing all integers (was Re: Resources to learn common lisp?) Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-08-29 17:52 -0300
Re: boxing all integers (was Re: Resources to learn common lisp?) Alan Bawden <alan@csail.mit.edu> - 2026-08-30 17:24 -0400
Re: boxing all integers (was Re: Resources to learn common lisp?) Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-08-31 03:11 -0300
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