Apropos

integerSystem Class

    Class Precedence List

    integer, rational, real, number, t

    Description

    An integer is a mathematical integer. There is no limit on the magnitude of an integer.

    The types fixnum and bignum form an exhaustive partition of type integer.

    Compound Type Specifier Kind

    Abbreviating.

    Compound Type Specifier Syntax
    (integer [lower-limit [upper-limit]])
    Compound Type Specifier Arguments

    lower-limit, upper-limitinterval designators for type integer. The defaults for each of lower-limit and upper-limit is the symbol *.

    Compound Type Specifier Description

    This denotes the integers on the interval described by lower-limit and upper-limit.

    See Also

    Figure 2–9, Section 2.3.2 (Constructing Numbers from Tokens), Section 22.1.3.1.1 (Printing Integers)

    Notes

    The type (integer lower upper), where lower and upper are most-negative-fixnum and most-positive-fixnum, respectively, is also called fixnum.

    The type (integer 0 1) is also called bit. The type (integer 0 *) is also called unsigned-byte.