On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Benny Tsai <benny.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As Brian said, primitive math is now the default in 1.3. If auto- > > promotion on overflow is desired, you can use the +', -', *', inc', > > dec' functions (note the single quote suffix). > > Why was this done? I preferred having +, -, etc. DTRT in general and > unchecked-+, etc. for when you really needed efficient primitive math. > My code is littered with + but has few unchecked-+s. Which means I'll > have to go through it all adding little tick-marks everywhere and > making the math look funny to keep its behavior the same whenever 1.3 > is released. For quite a few good reasons, the most important being that it makes Rich Hickey's life a lot easier, and ours as well as a result of that. Best to read over the very, very long thread on the subject. David -- 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
