I have 2 questions related to bigints. 1) I've read things suggesting Clojure auto-converts between int, long, and bigint to prevent overflow. That isn't the behavior I've experienced. Did something change from an older release of Clojure to more recent ones?
2) I found myself wanting to write a function that would use bigint math vs not depending on whether I passed a bigint in as arg. Internally I wanted to "seed" a reduce call with either 1 or 1N as appropriate. So I wanted to write something like this (except I'd like it to work): (defn foo [n] (cast (type n) 1)) ; (foo 3) => 1 ; (foo 42N) => 1N The following works, but I'd like to understand if I can avoid the conditional: (defn foo [n] (if (= clojure.lang.BigInt (type n)) 1N 1)) -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
