>>>>> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DS> Our integers will be generally unbounded in size--what I want is
DS> for the platform people to have the option of choosing a fast
DS> version of integer scalars that can be used when appropriate, and
DS> switching to the slower bigint version when things over or
DS> underflow.
that made sense to me originally. but why over/underflow to bigint? what
if i wanted the current semantics of going to float? floats will be much
faster than bigint. how would i force a var to float then?
i don't recall these semantics being hashed out in the rfc phase. and
for sure we know larry has not annointed them yet. :)
i know some want the bigint overflow but i think there should be a way
(pragma) to control it.
uri
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