The goal of primitive math is better performance in the common case. The implementation makes the assumptions that Java long is big enough for nearly all cases, and that auto-promotion to BigInteger (and the resulting performance hit) is rarely desirable.
The + function still promotes, it just promotes everything to long or double. If you want BigInts or BigDecimals, just insert one of them into the calculation, and everything else will get promoted to BigInt or BigDecimal. The only difference between + and +' is that +' will promote to BigInt if you overflow a long, whereas + will thrown an exception. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
