On: Common Lisp: Numbers

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In Go "Numeric constants represent exact values of arbitrary precision"

https://golang.org/ref/spec#Constants

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I don't think Go qualifies as a 'scripting language', even though the term is very loosely defined.

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I missed the part about scripting languages. Is LISP a scripting language?

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Yes.

1. Most Lisp dialects, including Scheme and ANSI Lisp, have interactive modes for evaluating expressions.

2. Most Lisp dialects have a mode of processing files in the same manner: reading individual forms and evaluating them immediately. I.e. it is not necessary to translate files into objects that have to be linked to produce an executable program.

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This is only true for values calculated at compile time. Once the result is stored in a variable it is converted to a fixed-size representation. All runtime calculations and results are fixed size.