Thanks Alex, Regards, Kashyap On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 10:08 PM Alexander Burger <a...@software-lab.de> wrote:
> Hi Kashyap, > > > I am trying to understand how big integers are stored in Picolisp. I > notice > > that the ASCII values of the digits are stored in some cases - for > example > > 1234 is stored as 0x34333231. > > Big integers are always stored in binary representation. > > I think what you saw was inside a symbol name. ASCII values are only > stored in > the names of symbols, which are technically numbers consisting of the > shifted > and combined UTF-8 characters. > > ☺/ A!ex > > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe >
