makelist(): argument size appears restricted to integer -- RFC
Subject: makelist(): argument size appears restricted to integer -- RFC
From: Robyn Dawn Hannigan
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:13:16 +1200
>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.
Please can you also patch the docs so this is mentioned. It's a good limit,
but without a signpost people will still hit it. This was by far my greatest
original concern.
TIA,
Robyn