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Issue FIXNUM-NON-PORTABLE (Version 3)

To: cl-cleanup@sail.stanford.edu
Subject: Issue FIXNUM-NON-PORTABLE (Version 3)
From: Barry Margolin <barmar@Think.COM>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 88 10:40 EDT
Cc: x3j13@sail.stanford.edu, Masinter.pa@xerox.com
In-reply-to: <881006-210851-2113@Xerox>

    Date: 6 Oct 88 21:08 PDT
    From: masinter.pa@xerox.com

    Proposal: FIXNUM-NONPORTABLE:TIGHTEN-DEFINITION

    (2) remove the type BIGNUM from the language.

I don't really see the point of this.  Isn't BIGNUM simply defined to be
(AND INTEGER (NOT FIXNUM))?  I admit that it isn't an extremely useful
type specifier, but it is just as portable as FIXNUM.

                                                barmar

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