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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.