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Re: issue BOGUS-FIXNUMS (initial draft)
- To: gz@spt.entity.com (Gail Zacharias)
- Subject: Re: issue BOGUS-FIXNUMS (initial draft)
- From: Masinter.pa@Xerox.COM
- Date: 12 Jul 88 16:00 PDT
- Cc: sandra%cdr@cs.utah.edu, cl-cleanup@sail.stanford.edu
- In-reply-to: gz@spt.entity.com (Gail Zacharias)'s message of 12 Jul 88 18:01:06 EDT (Tue)
Sigh, that's just the kind of code that is very non-portable and that I'd like
to discourage programmers from writing. I've tried to import stuff from a CL
that had 31 bit FIXNUMs into a system that had 17-bit FIXNUMs and, out of sheer
laziness, they said FIXNUM when they really meant (signed-byte 24).