Hi Simon, Simon Danisch <sdani...@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm guessing that is done to prevent overflow. > So you need to use your own implementation. > Here are the promote rules defining this behavior: > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/reduce.jl#L32 > So in theory you could also implement your own Int type, that has a > different promote behavior. Probably not worth it, though ;) OK, thanks, I will check reduce.jl, I was just finding odd how the promotion happens for some integer types and not others... ,---- | julia> typeof(sum([i for i in Int8(1):Int8(10)])) | Int32 | | julia> typeof(sum([i for i in Int16(1):Int16(10)])) | Int32 | | julia> typeof(sum([i for i in Int32(1):Int32(10)])) | Int64 | | julia> typeof(sum([i for i in Int64(1):Int64(10)])) | Int64 | | julia> typeof(sum([i for i in Int128(1):Int128(10)])) | Int128 `---- -- Ángel de Vicente http://www.iac.es/galeria/angelv/
