Conal Elliott <co...@conal.net> writes: > Oh -- not one version of Int for 32-bit execution and another version for > 64-bit execution? Seen on #haskell today: > > <mux> > maxBound :: Int > <lambdabot> 9223372036854775807
I've always been opposed to having Int "built in" (in contrast to having Int32 and Int64 defined in a library somewhere). It's much cleaner to have Integer as the language integer. A reference implementation of Int8 (for brevity!) could be written with (off the top of my head) data Int8 = Int8 !Bool !Bool !Bool !Bool !Bool !Bool !Bool !Bool which would specify the semantics exactly. -- Jón Fairbairn jon.fairba...@cl.cam.ac.uk _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
