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RE: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums
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Drew Adams |
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RE: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums |
Date: |
Sat, 8 Sep 2018 18:43:10 -0700 (PDT) |
> Sorry, I disagree. I think it's important for the Lisp programmers to
> know what kind of objects they could get as return values. Maybe in
> some distant future we will no longer care about the difference
> between fixnums and bignums, but as of now, we still do.
+1. If there is a difference then users deserve to know about it
(without looking at the code). Whenever there is no difference
it can be enough to say "number".
- Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums, (continued)
- Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/09
- Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums, Stefan Monnier, 2018/09/09
- Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/10
- Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums, Stefan Monnier, 2018/09/10
- Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/10
- Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/09
- Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums, Stefan Monnier, 2018/09/09
Re: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums, Paul Eggert, 2018/09/08
RE: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums,
Drew Adams <=