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Re: [Chicken-users] Big Randoms
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Peter Bex |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-users] Big Randoms |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:37:06 +0100 |
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 07:44:19PM -0800, Kon Lovett wrote:
>
> What happens w/ 4.6.0 when you import 'numbers' into the toplevel? i.e.
>
> (use numbers srfi-27)
> (expt 2 32) ;=> ???
> (random-integer (expt 2 32)) ;=> ???
That should not have any effect, unless srfi-27 contains special code
to deal with numbers (if it imports "scheme" it will probably use the
core operators, not the ones that can handle bignums).
Cheers,
Peter
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