[flavio81]

> it's the novel way

This is usual in Lisp (compilers/implementations) and i wouldn't be surprised if it was invented on the seventies once large (i.e. 36-bit long) registers were available.

[junke → flavio81]

This seems to be relevant ;-)

https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2017-09-04-lisp-number...