Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Problem w/ Utf8 egg: couldn't load case-map-1.dat

[felix winkelmann]

On 9/7/05, Kon Lovett <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> There isn't an intrinsic signed vs. unsigned property for numbers. So
> how can  (u32vector-set! ...) accept 0 to (2^32)-1 when no way to
> distinguish from -(2^31) to (2^31)-1 by the bit-pattern of the value
> alone?
> 

Since fixnums on 32-bit machines can not cover the whole numeric
range, we have to accept flloating-point/inexact numbers.


cheers,
felix