[r6rs-discuss] What's under the hood?

Brian Harvey bh at cs.berkeley.edu
Tue Sep 29 16:31:04 EDT 2009


> +1.  +%bignums really means "report an error when the numbers get
> too big".

Okay, in the context in which you said it I can see what you mean, but this
terminology is way counterintuitive.  Intuitively, +%bignums should mean
"there's no such thing as too big"!



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