On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Mark Engelberg <mark.engelb...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Elaborating on Anthony's explanation, let's say you call (fact (foo n)). > This imposes too high a burden on any programmer who cares about safety. > Don't buy it. That's the whole point of BigInt contagion. If fact and foo are correctly written this will work. > (defn fact [n] (if (zero? n) 1N (* n (fact (dec n))))) (defn foo [n] (inc n)) (fact (foo 40)) (fact (foo 40N)) Both work. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
