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#o and unsignedness
- To: Guy.Steele at CMU-10A
- Subject: #o and unsignedness
- From: RWK at MIT-MC (Robert W. Kerns)
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 80 21:13:00 GMT
- Cc: (BUG LISP) at MIT-MC
- Original-date: 31 OCT 1980 1613-EST
- Sent-by: ___045 at MIT-MC
Indeed, I never suggested that it should truncate. I gave it a bit pattern
that would fit in a FIXNUM and it didn't fit it in a fixnum. But on reflection
I think my other proposal is superior: Replacing #*nnnn with #*O (or #*X or
#*D or #nn*R ...) to be unsigned. There's even mnemonic value in the * being
neither - nor +. This could even be made compatible with it's current
behaviour in that I don't know of any non-octal uses, so #*nnn could be the
same as #*Onnnn