On Wednesday, March 31, 2010, Richard Newman <holyg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ur=> (map #(Integer/parseInt % 16) ["ff43" "0032"]) > (65347 50) > > > ...that yields ints, not shorts. > > > At the risk of diverging from the question: why are you concerned with the > specific type of the number?
I am because the OP was. He asked for shorts; I was just trying to oblige. Regardless of actual storage size requirements, short and int are distinct types, at least in Java-land, and not knowing the problem space I assume there was a reason for wanting one instead of the other. > On a related note: if I have the symbol for a type, like "short" or > "int" or "byte", is there a way to ask Clojure what size word that > represents? > In Java, byte/char/short/int are all represented the same: 32 bits. Long is > 64. Forget the storage cell size; I want to know the range of legal values. Obviously I can define my own mapping, but I was asking if there was anything built in to Clojure. > If you mean "how many octets would this take to represent in C": C storage has nothing to do with it. In Clojure 1.2, (short n) blows up on n < -32768 or n > 32767. I would like a way to programmatically determine those values based on the identity of the function I'm about to call. Again, I can obviously make a lookup table; just thought there might be something introspectable. -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com> -- 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 To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
