Yeah, I just reproduced this.  I think it's a bug.  Created Assembla
ticket 339.  I've added some more test cases their too.

Thanks!
Sean

On May 5, 3:15 am, alux <alu...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> can somebody please explain the difference between the following two?
>
> (def imax (Integer/MAX_VALUE))
> (+ imax imax)
>
> gives 4294967294
>
> but
>
> (+ (Integer/MAX_VALUE) (Integer/MAX_VALUE))
>
> results in integer overflow
>    [Thrown class java.lang.ArithmeticException]
>
> Shouldnt this be the same?
>
> Thank you, alux
>
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