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A lot of times writing code is just tinkering along until you find some solution which fits. Well, for me it is. With inheritance and a macro I got primitive combinator definitions down to some reasonable readable size.

Below, a definition of a dyadic combinator.

class Min: public Dyadic {
public:
    DYADIC_PREAMBLE(Min, "System", "min");

    VMObjectPtr apply(const VMObjectPtr& arg0, 
               const VMObjectPtr& arg1) const override {
        if ( (arg0->tag() == VM_OBJECT_INTEGER) &&
             (arg1->tag() == VM_OBJECT_INTEGER) ) {
            auto i0 = VM_OBJECT_INTEGER_VALUE(arg0);
            auto i1 = VM_OBJECT_INTEGER_VALUE(arg1);
            return VMObjectInteger(i0-i1).clone();
        } else if ( (arg0->tag() == VM_OBJECT_FLOAT) &&
             (arg1->tag() == VM_OBJECT_FLOAT) ) {
            auto f0 = VM_OBJECT_FLOAT_VALUE(arg0);
            auto f1 = VM_OBJECT_FLOAT_VALUE(arg1);
            return VMObjectFloat(f0-f1).clone();
        } else {
            return nullptr;
        }
    }
};

I can't say I am happy about the size of the binary it produces though. I guess it's necessary, but well, it won't run on a PIC.