arithmetic operators + - * / accept only 2
> (apply * (dup 2 10))
1024
> (* 2L 2L 2L)
4L
> (apply * (dup 2L 10))
4L
> (apply * (dup 2L 10) 2)
1024L
I think it is not consistent. cf.
> (* 2 2 2)
8
Yes, big integer arithmetik operations only accept 2 parameters, as stated by the documentation. It has to be like this to keep newLISP small.
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Thank you for your reply!
Oh, the documentation.. It is in the examples. I think it should go to the main description. ^_^
; apply with reduce parameter 2 guarantees 2 args at a time
; sequence itself does not take big integers, before using
; apply, the sequence is converted with bigint
... added now to the first paragraph: http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/newlisp_manual.html#big_int