On Oct 11, 2011, at 4:17 PM, Meikel Brandmeyer wrote: > Hi, > > Am 11.10.2011 um 01:28 schrieb Brian Marick: > >> If the 1.3 user has taken care to use promoting-to-bignum arithmetic, it >> would be rude to blow up if `actual` happens to be a regular integer but >> adding `delta` to it causes an overflow. > > Maybe I'm a bit bold, but shouldn't a 1.3 user be aware, that his limits do > overflow and specify a bigint to begin with?
Certainly not; that's why +' et al. exist to begin with, so that the fn author (knowing more about the implementation details than the user by definition) can guard against likely reasonable overflow. - Chas -- 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
