Re: integer overflow

[Helmut Eller]

* Chong Yidong [2010-03-06 04:11+0100] writes:

>> Can you summarize how it's supposed to work?
>
> The change affects the Lisp reader: reading "536870912" or any larger
> number now gives you a float Lisp object, instead of an integer Lisp
> object (since there is no way to represent 536870912 or larger as
> integers).  536870911 and below are still read as integers.

What's the point of doing that?  I would much prefer if read would just
raise and error.

Helmut