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Re: Should logior (and friends) operate only on inums?

To: "Greg J. Badros" <gjb at cs dot washington dot edu>
Subject: Re: Should logior (and friends) operate only on inums?
From: Marius Vollmer <mvo at zagadka dot ping dot de>
Date: 18 Jan 2000 01:29:03 +0100
Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow at alum dot mit dot edu>, guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001171647520.741-100000@goo.dev.mt.lv> <388385BB.3BC71901@alum.mit.edu> <qrrzou4bdg2.fsf@clavicle.cs.washington.edu> <388388CB.6F63E40E@alum.mit.edu> <qrrwvp8bcu7.fsf@clavicle.cs.washington.edu>

"Greg J. Badros" <gjb@cs.washington.edu> writes:

> It's a tough call;  I think of some weighting between amount of code
> that its add relative to its general utility.

I don't think so.  If you have code for doing bignum bit twiddling it
should definitely be in the core.  It is not totally urgent to fix it
but it is still a bug not to support bignums.  Anything else would
earn a golden `8.3' award, in my opinion.

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