Re: [Chicken-hackers] encoded-literals

[felix winkelmann]

On Dec 19, 2007 4:24 PM, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> felix winkelmann scripsit:
>
> > > Does this mean that the restriction against compiling code that contains
> > > bignum literals has been lifted?
> >
> > No.
>
> Hmm.  What would it take to overcome this limitation?  Would it be 
> straightforward in the
> new framework?
>

It would be easier using the old technique of "compressing" literals:
generate toplevel
variables for these special literals and read them from a string. But
the problem is that
the literal-holding variables have to be defined before the toplevel code starts
executing. And the numbers support code will be loaded by toplevel code (by the
user-provided "(require-extension numbers)").


cheers,
felix