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Re: Should logior (and friends) operate only on inums?
Maciej Stachowiak writes:
> I have to agree with Marius. Can you imagine the confusion of having to
> load one module for bit-twiddling operations, another for bit twiddling
> operations that work on bignums, another for arithmetic on bignums, etc?
> One of Scheme's advantages is that it hides you from having to care how
> many bits are in your number, even if the machine cares.
>
> Mathematical operations should (in theory) support all of the numeric
> tower for which they have a natural interpretation.
>
> Admittedly, this is not the world's most important bug, but it is a bug
> nontheless.
how about autoload? it seems to work for scheme code. if there is a C
API, it could work for bignum extensions, too.
thi