Re: [Chicken-users] set-file-position! only works with fixnums

[Andreas Rottmann]

John Cowan <address@hidden> writes:

> Thomas Bushnell BSG scripsit:
>
>> I think this is a mistake, but "fixing" it is harder than it seems.
>> 
>> Really, this is totally non-schemey.  
>> 
>> The criterion should be an exact integer, just as it is for arrays.
>> Instead of allowing inexact integers to be file positions, how about
>> extending the hierarchy to handle these cases directly?
>
> Well, in order for that to work you have to persuade Felix to incorporate
> bignums in the core, and they can't be GMP bignums either because of
> the licensing -- that would make Chicken as a whole GPL, and that's not
> gonna happen.  Making all that happen is what is harder than it seems.
>
Uhm, GMP is LGPL, so Chicken can use whatever license it likes, even if
it would start to use GMP.

Regards, Rotty
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Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>