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Re: Common Lisp solved this problem 20 years ago

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Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:

Per Bothner <per@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:



Taylor Campbell wrote:


Coercion to integers of a given modulus, for
example, from other integers, is accomplished with a procedure we
already have in R5RS, namely MODULO;


Not the same.  The coercion creates a value with a different run-time
type, such that the generic + operator uses modulo arithmetic.



Can you coerce to fixnum a number which is bigger than maxint, and
reliably get modulus, or would that coercion be an error?


Either is plausible, but I think the former makes more sense.
The Kawa implementation sort-of-does the modulus.  ("Sort-of" because
the implementation currently only handles unboxed "private" Java
numebr types, and their representation/coercion to/from Objects is
incomplete and buggy.)
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