Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Numbers egg interaction with other compiled code.

[John Cowan]

Tony Sidaway scripsit:

> So if we redefine negative? to do something wonderful with bignums,
> then everywhere in the program that has access to the binding
> "negative?" should see the change.  No?

No, because the egg doesn't redefine the global definition of negative?,
it just rebinds the identifier locally to the module that invokes it.

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