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Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrczak@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > My toy Scheme interpreter is hosted by a language with native bignums, > and no distinction between fixnums and bignums in the public API. > A requirement to support modular arithmetic would be inconvenient here. I claim that this inconvenience is hardly worth affecting the standard, as modular arithmetic in terms of bignums is very easy to implement. (Certainly easier than the reverse.) In fact, the reference implementation provides just such an implementation---just drop it in, if you don't want to do it yourself. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla