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Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Using the GNU GMP Library for Bignums in Emacs
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 09:54:09 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> The most precise type for 5 would be (eql 5) or (integer 5 5).

Indeed, and we don't want that.

> But I guess for generic function dispatch it would more useful to have
> something like a "representation type".

That's right.  The most precise possible, but not too precise.


        Stefan




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