Hi Kashyap, > I am trying to understand how big integers are stored in Picolisp. I notice > that the ASCII values of the digits are stored in some cases - for example > 1234 is stored as 0x34333231.
Big integers are always stored in binary representation. I think what you saw was inside a symbol name. ASCII values are only stored in the names of symbols, which are technically numbers consisting of the shifted and combined UTF-8 characters. ☺/ A!ex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe