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From: jwz@lucid.com (Jamie Zawinski)
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Subject: Re: Floating point in CL?
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Rob writes:
> You should also make sure your non-float arithmetic is getting open-coded,
> i.e. all your DOTIMES variables should be declared FIXNUM.  

Since the result of changing the value of a dotimes counter is undefined,
isn't it reasonable for the expansion of dotimes to declare it fixnum if
it can tell that it will never reach the bignum range?

		-- Jamie