On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Chas has already pointed you at the rationale / discussion but I'm a >> Discussions about primitive arithmetic, not BigInteger arithmetic. > > I take it you didn't actually bother to read the page he linked to?
You take it wrong. I remember that discussion, evidently better than you do. > I know how averse you are to spending any time reading more than > the first few lines of any material Wrong again. Are you quite done littering the list with pointless ad hominem remarks? >> That'd be my position, yes. Also, backward compatibility: format works >> in 1.2 with (* 400000000000 400000000000 400000000000) so it should >> work in 1.3 with (* 400000000000 400000000000 400000000000). > > Kinda hard since that expression is not valid in 1.3 anyway: > > ArithmeticException integer overflow > clojure.lang.Numbers.throwIntOverflow (Numbers.java:1374) Bah. It really should work, but we've had that discussion before. Others in this thread have also pointed out that there is a backward compatibility problem if format used to work with bignums and then stops doing so, so you're outvoted. > ... too much work for you... This is not an appropriate venue for you to vent bile about other fellow users. If you have some kind of personal issue with me, please take it up by private email or simply keep it to yourself. Thank you. -- Protege: What is this seething mass of parentheses?! Master: Your father's Lisp REPL. This is the language of a true hacker. Not as clumsy or random as C++; a language for a more civilized age. -- 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
