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Re:Never create Ruby strings longer than 23 characters by dchest on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @06:07PM (#3426429)
Guile manual has nice details about data representation:

http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Data-Repr...

Tagging: http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Faster-In...

Another interesting technique is NaN-tagging (used in LuaJIT): http://wingolog.org/archives/2011/05/18/value-representation...

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