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RE: integer overflow
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Drew Adams |
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RE: integer overflow |
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Sat, 6 Mar 2010 08:33:51 -0800 |
> There are many cases where it's important to read an integer
> from some other program, so it's important to be able to read
> integers larger the Elisp's largest fixnum (tho less so for
> integers larger than the host system's natural "int").
> Examples are file sizes, process ids, user ids, ...
Lisp (MacLisp) invented bignums 40+ years ago. Maybe it's time...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bignum
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