Re: *large-positive-number* defined twice

On 4/25/26 6:49 PM, Barton Willis wrote:

> Thanks for catching my flub.  It seems that the definition in tlimit 
> should be changed to
>
> ;; For limits toward `inf`, assume that the limit variable exceeds 
> `*large-positive-number*`
> (defmvar *large-positive-number*  (expt 10 8))
>
> And in a couple of places in limit.lisp, we should change 100000000 to
> `*large-positive-number*`.
>
>
> I can make these changes early next week, or if you want to get it 
> done sooner, that's great too.

I’m not in any hurry. This was noted by Claude when I asked it to look 
for circular dependencies between the tlimit and limit. They are pretty 
tightly coupled with mutual calls between the two which are hard to 
separate.

>
> Thanks.
>
> --Barton
>
>
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> The specvar |*large-positive-number*| is defined twice. Once in 
> tlimit.lisp and the second in limit.lisp. Only those two files use it. 
> Since tlimit.lisp is compiled first, the actual value is from 
> tlimit.lisp. Since the comment in tlimit says the choice of 2^{42} was 
> arbitrary, maybe remove the definition from tlimit.
>
> Well, that’s not quite right since tlimit is compiled first. So use 
> the value from limit.lisp and remove the definition from tlimit?
>
> &#8203;
&#8203;

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