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RE: documentation of integers, fixnums and bignums


From: Drew Adams
Subject: 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".



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