Re: integer overflow handling for most-negative-fixnum

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 13:15:49 -0400
> 
> > So I'd prefer we fixed the reader, if that's possible without breaking
> > something important.
> 
> Not sure what "fix the reader" would do here.  Do you mean read
> #x2000000000000000 as a negative number?

Yes.  More importantly, I'd like it to read #x3fffffffffffffff as -1.

> When/why/where would that be a good idea?

When wouldn't it be a good idea?