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Re: Fun-O Basic Edition Compiler
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeffrey Siegal <jbs@quiotix.com>
To: <info-dylan@ai.mit.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 5:15 AM
Subject: Re: Fun-O Basic Edition Compiler
> Bruce Hoult wrote:
> > One niceish thing about Dylan is that if you decide that you'd like
> > *all* integers in the program to overflow to bignums instead of wrapping
> > then all you have to do is rename <general-integer> to <integer> in the
> > imports section.
>
> Actually, what I prefer is the behavior that is documented, but not
> implemented, in Stalin, which is for fixints to trap if they overflow.
> Transparently overflowing to bignums may hide a program bug or a hidden
> assumption that has been broken.
Actually, not transparently overflowing to bignums usually causes more
problems by exposing hidden assumptions...
You can always declare a particular value to have a more restricted type.
__Jason
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