John Cowan <co...@ccil.org> writes: > Thomas Bushnell BSG scripsit: > >> I think this is a mistake, but "fixing" it is harder than it seems. >> >> Really, this is totally non-schemey. >> >> The criterion should be an exact integer, just as it is for arrays. >> Instead of allowing inexact integers to be file positions, how about >> extending the hierarchy to handle these cases directly? > > Well, in order for that to work you have to persuade Felix to incorporate > bignums in the core, and they can't be GMP bignums either because of > the licensing -- that would make Chicken as a whole GPL, and that's not > gonna happen. Making all that happen is what is harder than it seems. > Uhm, GMP is LGPL, so Chicken can use whatever license it likes, even if it would start to use GMP.
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