Re: [q-lang-users] [cowan: Chicken Scheme to Q interface almost ready for beta]

[John C. <co...@cc...>]

Albert Graef scripsit:

> I'd say that's a bad idea, because it's inconsistent (at least from Q's 
> POV) and gives the Chicken programmer a very wrong idea about how these 
> operators behave in Q. Also, you'd have to handle user-defined 
> operators, too. Therefore I'd favour the idea of having a separate macro 
> to handle these cases.

Well, I'll leave it out of the first release and concentrate on documenting
what I've got.  I should also have added that due to limitations in
Chicken's foreign-function interface, only fixnums (in the range of 2^30)
and floats can pass through.  Larger integral values will be
converted to floats before Chicken sees them, and will remain so
when passed back to Q.

When I can get support for bignums, adding rational and complex
numbers should be no problem.

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