For even more fun, you can take advantage of the fact that commas are whitespace, and use a macro to do it at compile time:
(defmacro bignum [& parts] (read-string (apply str parts))) (bignum 99,871,142) 99871142 -SS --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---