Brian Beckman <bc.beck...@gmail.com> writes: > Org-babel seems to print SLIME / SBCL bignums as floating point, at least in > this gist (please see > https://gist.github.com/rebcabin/f73cecd3c9b7da6218e9). I'd like to be able > to control whether bignums are printed out in full. Any advice for me? >
I think this happens because babel turns result strings into elisp objects, using (read ...). This has two consequences: the string has to be legal emacs-lisp (that causes problems with e.g. scheme evaluators which return things like #t and #f on which the elisp reader chokes; note also the conversion of lisp-vector-to-list in ob-lisp.el which is done to avoid similar problems); it also does violence to some strings as you have observed - e.g. try (read "123456789123456789123456789") 1.2345678912345679e+26 I'm not sure whether the (read ...) is required in order for babel to work correctly, or whether it is a bug. I've wanted to look into this for a while now (ever since Lawrence Bottorff reported the #t problem with scheme), but I have not been able to find any time to do so. -- Nick
