On 5 August 2014 at 19:43:21, Cecil Westerhof (cldwester...@gmail.com) wrote: > > Because of the class of those values is Long. Why are those not > Integer?
To avoid the performance penalty of automatic promotion. In dynamically typed languages with auto-promotion of integers you have to perform a promotion check for every operation. It's not Long, by the way, it is long (the primitive). -- @michaelklishin, github.com/michaelklishin -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
