On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Mark Engelberg <mark.engelb...@gmail.com>wrote:

> My favorite option of those proposed is:
> +, *, -, inc, dec auto-promote.
> loop/recur is changed so that primitive bindings are boxed.
> +',*',-',inc',dec' give error upon overflow.
> A new construct, loop', is introduced that doesn't box primitives and
> enforces recur with primitive upon penalty of error.


Until the discussion on loop/recur I was ok with fast math taking '. But now
that I see that people are proposing to change the behavior of loop/recur
(in way I that think is inconsistent with the behavior of literals under the
equal branch). I'm now firmly on the side that people who want
auto-promotion should use '.

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