From: Alan Post <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Re: sqlite3 egg patches for chicken experimental branch Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 14:10:36 -0700
> On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 09:52:52PM +0100, Felix wrote: >> I recommend not to use fixnum mode, and to use fixnum-specific >> operators instead. It can happen too easily that a library procedure >> returns inexact results (for example for very large numbers that >> exceed fixnum range). >> >> Apologies for the ruthless cleaning up over the holidays, but I think >> it is better go through this sooner than later. >> > > What are the fixnum operators? I didn't know they existed, and I'd > like to use them myself rather than declaring fixnum. I'm indexing > into a buffer that came from a file, so I can by definition use the > machine's word size. See http://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/Unit%20library#arithmetic-fixnum-operations cheers, felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
