Class Precedence List

integer, rational, real, number, t

Description

An integer is a mathematical integer. There is no limit on the magnitude of an integer.

The types fixnum and bignum form an exhaustive partition of type integer.

Compound Type Specifier Kind

Abbreviating.

Compound Type Specifier Syntax

(integer{[lower-limit [upper-limit]]})

Compound Type Specifier Arguments

lower-limit, upper-limit

interval designators for type integer. The defaults for each of lower-limit and upper-limit is the symbol *.

Compound Type Specifier Description

This denotes the integers on the interval described by lower-limit and upper-limit.

See Also

Figure~2–9, Constructing Numbers from Tokens, Printing Integers

Notes

The type (integer lower upper), where lower and upper are most-negative-fixnum and most-positive-fixnum, respectively, is also called fixnum.

The type (integer 0 1) is also called bit. The type (integer 0 *) is also called unsigned-byte.

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