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Re: Checking for loss of information on integer conversion


From: Juliusz Chroboczek
Subject: Re: Checking for loss of information on integer conversion
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 23:31:09 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux)

> Second, although Emacs still reads large integers like
> 18446744073709551616 as if they were floating-point, it now signals an
> error if information is lost in the process.

That's better, but still horrible.

> Another possibility would be for Emacs to signal an error when reading any
> integer that does not fit in fixnum bounds.

Please do that.




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