On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:58:03 -0500, John Cowan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree with all of your other points, but I think this objection is more > theoretical than real. Most people don't have in-memory datastructures > with more than 16M elements, and therefore are unlikely to get that sort > of crash. I am sure that you have many files larger than 16MB on your disk. Should I not be able to represent a position in the file exactly on a Small Scheme? What are the consequences of overflow to inexact in that case? What if I'm using memory mapped files? -- Brian Mastenbrook [email protected] http://brian.mastenbrook.net/ _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
