Andrew Reilly scripsit:

> If I'm dealing with integers, I really, really don't want them
> being coerced into flonums, because that means that my results
> are *wrong*.  If we're talking about modes where there is not
> implicit promotion to bignums (and that's useful, because
> sometimes time and space are important constraints), I'd like
> another mode that raised an exception on fixnum overflow, so
> that my program could stop nicely (and perhaps be debugged.)

Get (or configure) a small Scheme that's -%bignums -%inexact.

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