Re: [clisp-list] very long floats

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

Bruno Haible wrote:
>> 2. Are there any plans of incorporating improved longfloats (e.g. CLN) into
>>    CLISP?  Or is this too much work for too little interest?
> 
> It is too much work for too few users.

IOW, PTC.

> Also, many CL users want portability,
> therefore they would refrain from relying on a feature that they don't have
> in, say, SBCL.

this argument is absurd.
if it were true, people would not use CLISP variable-length floats 
because they are not available in SBCL and threads in SBCL because they 
are not available in CLISP.

S.