Dan <vi5u0-maxima at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Out of interest, why "kidding"? What, in principle or in practice,
would be wrong with trying to compile Maxima using Emacs Lisp with its
Common Lisp emulation package?
Does elisp have bignums yet?
(1+ most-positive-fixnum)
-536870912
You can find some some horrible hacks on the web that will make bignums
available in elisp, but they are indeed horrible and probably wouldn't
bear the pressure Maxima would put on them.