coerce a number to a short

[Mark Evenson]

> On Nov 27, 2019, at 05:53, somewhat-functional-programmer <somewhat-functional-programmer at protonmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Here's a workaround in the meantime (though it's more verbose)... using java.lang.Short.reverseBytes(short s) as the test case[1]:
> 
> ;; no such method failure
> (jstatic "reverseBytes" "java.lang.Short" #x7f)


[Tests via ABCL-PROVE added.][ABCL-PROVE]

[ABCL-PROVE]: https://github.com/armedbear/abcl/pull/131

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