This was the big change in clojure 1.3
See http://dev.clojure.org/display/doc/Enhanced+Primitive+Support
The expectation now is that if you are doing math that is going to
overflow, you can either introduce a bigint into the chain somewhere,
after which all the math will use bigints (contagion) o
I thought clojure always did auto promotion between long and bigdecimal,
but I run repl today and I notice this:
(* 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000) raises overflow
(* 1000M 1000M 1000M 1000M 1000M 1000M 1000M) this is ok
So this was always working that way? or they've changed? (and if yes, wh
