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Re: Should logior (and friends) operate only on inums?
Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:
> "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.
Cute. :-) I don't feel strongly about this, but in my dream
interpreter, all support for bignums would be an extension, since I've
never used them.
Greg