Brian Mastenbrook wrote:
> On Sep 23, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Ben Goetter wrote:
>
>> Brian Mastenbrook wrote:
>>> On the contrary, not providing bignums seems to be a relatively 
>>> rare  choice among implementations that purport to implement the 
>>> R5RS  without restriction or limitation.
>> Ironically (given its name), Bigloo was the last major holdout, but 
>> even it has provided bignums for over a year now.
>
> The latest release (3.2b), which I have installed, does not appear to 
> support them. Is there an option I'm missing?
I don't know.  Your original note prompted me go to ChangeLog of Bigloo, 
a significant implementation that I thought I knew did not support 
bignums, where a series of changes from March 2008 onwards claim to 
implement, then correct bugs in, its bignum support.  I don't use Bigloo 
myself.
>
> I didn't mention Bigloo because it does not purport to implement the 
> R5RS fully - tail calling and hygiene lexical syntactic bindings 
> (`let-syntax') being two major documented points of deviation from the 
> R5RS.
I was under the impression that both of those points had been brought 
into compliance at some point in the last decade.  But again, I don't 
know for certain.

Ben


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