On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Aaron Cohen <aa...@assonance.org> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:28 AM, timc <timgcl...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> (def b (byte i)) >>> >>> is doing something equivalent to this internally: >>> >>> byte b = Byte.parseByte(String.format("%d",i)); >> >> What the HELL? >> >> That's incredibly icky and inefficient. :) >> > > Don't worry, it's not actually doing that: > https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/f128af9d36dfcb268b6e9ea63676cf254c0f1c40/src/jvm/clojure/lang/RT.java#L902
Oh, good. That's basically what I said it should do. -- 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