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Marco Antoniotti
When working on numerical algorithms it is sometimes useful to further constrain the types of certain values to sub-intervals of the usual types present in Common Lisp. A typical example is that of indices running over the dimensions of an array: such integers values should not be negative. While several Common Lisp implementations already have certain special "sub-interval" type specifiers that can be used in implementation dependent code, it seems natural and relatively uncontroversial to propose a set of specialized types that codify usual mathematical numerical sets and intervals. This document puts forward such a proposal.
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