RE: evaluating numbers

[Drew Adams]

> > I don't see the default value there, but shouldn't it
> > be the value of (max-char)?
> >
> > If the point of printing the value as a character is
> > to print it as a character, why wouldn't the default
> > behavior be to print any possible character as a character?
> 
> Please don't reopen old disputes.  The default is 127.

I didn't realize there was a "dispute", old or young.

I just came across this thread.  Tracing it back to
its beginning (which was only 5 days ago), I see that
the default is 127, and it was apparently previously
much bigger.  Too bad, but not a big deal.