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Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
Declaring types of identifiers is not enough, because it can't express the wish to ignore any fixnum overflow and assume that the result will fit in a fixnum.
Indeed, the current SRFI does not adequately distinguish between the following two cases:
(a) addition in which the operands are fixnums and the result is guaranteed to be a fixnum (or should be wrapped to a fixnum's range).
(b) addition in which the operands are fixnums and the result is not guaranteed to be a fixnum (and should not be wrapped to a fixnum's range).
Regards, Alan -- Dr Alan Watson Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica Universidad Astronómico Nacional de México