makelist(): argument size appears restricted to integer -- RFC



On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Robyn Dawn Hannigan
<sonofthejedi at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> Many thanks for your attentions on this issue. As i read the
> replies, i cannot help but feel that i am being told off for
> being ignorant.

Certainly I didn't intend that. Can't speak for the others.

> This restriction to a fixnum, or an integer, or whatever. Please
> document it.

I';m going to go ahead and change the test to a test for a general integer.
I don't see much point to a specific range test, since it seems likely
there is no way to determine the actually workable range.
Testing for a fixnum is an implicit range test, and doesn't make any
more sense than testing for n < 1000 or 1000000 or whatever.

FWIW

Robert Dodier