Hmm... Okay. Actually, I think I was confused with auto promotion of
integer types. I was quite impressed that Clojure automatically add 'N'
when I type big integer like '69487463928746987124659827635827'.
However, I was suprised when I type '6.9487463928746987124659827635827',
because the resul
I personally think the current approach is right. Most people don't need
arbitrary precision decimals, so it makes sense to have the fastest
implementation used as the default. This also follows the "principle of
least surprise" for people who are coming from other languages.
If someone really
Am I missing something? I realize doubles are generally faster because of
hardware implementations &c, but that seems orthogonal from the question of
syntax. I've several times thought idealistically that it could be better
to have the syntaxes switched (to reduce the amount of accidental floati
It's done this way for performance.
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I learned that Clojure reader interprets decimal literal with suffix 'M',
like 1.23M, as BigDecimal. And I also know that decimal numbers with no 'M'
become Java double.
But I think it would be better that normal decimal number is BigDecimal,
and host-dependent decimal has suffix, like 1.23H. So
