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documentation (length)

Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:24 am
by fred
I'm new at newLISP so i give it a try :)
In Users Manual and Reference v.9.9.8 i did read the description of the length function:

length applied to a symbol returns the length of the symbol name.
Applied to a number, length returns the number of bytes needed in
memory to store that number: 4 for integers and 8 for floating point
numbers.

Shoud it not be 8 for 64 bit integers?

Fred.

Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:08 pm
by cormullion
Hi Fred!

The move to 64 bit integers was release 9.0.0 (1 year ago) - perhaps that number should have been updated then.