coerce a number to a short

[Mark Evenson]

> On Dec 13, 2019, at 20:14, somewhat-functional-programmer <somewhat-functional-programmer at protonmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've looked into this issue at length now and I think I have something worth
> discussing and potentially trying[0] . The root issue here lies in how ABCL
> converts its CL representation of integers to Java, as well as its conversion
> of Java primitives to other Java primitives.

[…]

Thanks for the needed extensive re-working here; working [through my review][1] as I find time.

[1]: https://github.com/easye/abcl/tree/somewhat-functional/primitive-narrowing



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