Derick,
In principle I think this is great thing to do. Not having a 64 bit type is > annoying. I'm a bit curious on how this is going to work with all sorts of > object wrappers that are now in place as workaround. And casting int64 to > int32 needs to very well looked at as well. > > As far as the casting, my first reaction would be to raise an E_ENGINE_NOTICE on data loss (casting from int64 to int32 with ints > 32 bit) and then adjusting the value to the nearest representable value (LONG_MAX or LONG_MIN). In other words, it may need to be more than a simple cast (an inline function perhaps)... As far as object wrappers, any particular examples that you're thinking of? Thanks for the thoughts Anthony
