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From: alain@cs.uchicago.edu (Alain Roy)
Subject: Integers in dylan
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I'm confused by integers in Dylan. There are integers and big integers.
When I interface with C code, how will it deal with the fact that some
procedures require different sized or signed integers? Will there be any
sort of checking to make sure I'm not passing something ridiculously out
of bounds? Will there be conversions going on everytime I pass an integer?

I suppose some of the same questions apply to strings. C strings and, for
the Mac, pascal strings.

-alain
