Re: [Chicken-users] 32 bit integers?

[Dan Muresan]

> > I don't see a way to hack these using flonums. Bignums would solve the 
> > problem but they're slow.
>
> You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Yeah, thanks for the reminder :) One problem is that some "obvious" 
pitfalls are not documented prominently. That's confusing: it makes you 
think you're missing something (when in actuality you're hitting a 
genuine limitation that should have been acknowledged more explicitly). 
But enough "meta-talk".

> which use GMP, I found that the only reliable way to pass a
> bignum from one system to the other was as a string.

That thought crossed my mind, but I was hoping never to have to do that:)

-- Dan