On 14 November 2010 15:43, Robert McIntyre <r...@mit.edu> wrote:
> @Nicolas Oury
> I'd normally agree that "you just shouldn't do that kind of thing,"
> but this is not correct behaviour for something that I would consider
> a basic thing.  It feels dirty that our functions don't work for
> "arbitrary arities"  but instead for arities only between 0 and around
> 7000.  Since apply  does work for this, would it be possible for the
> reader to convert such long forms into something like (apply + (list
> long-list)) before evaluating them?

I believe the underlying problem is a limit of the JVM.  Maybe it
would be possible for the Clojure compiler to work around the
limitation, though.

-- 
Michael Wood <esiot...@gmail.com>

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