On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Didier Verna <did...@didierverna.net> wrote: > Erik Schnetter <schnet...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The literal `1` has type `Int`. The promotion rules for `Int8` and >> `Int` state that, before the addition, `Int8` is converted to `Int`. >> (On your system, it seems that `Int` is `Int64`.) > > OK, so indeed, there's modular arithmetics for the non native > representations as well. It's just that litterals are neither > overloaded, nor implicitly transtyped. I see, thanks.
Some mathematical constants (e.g. pi) automatically adapt to the environment where they are used, defaulting to Float64. Literals, however, do not -- they have a specific type. -erik -- Erik Schnetter <schnet...@gmail.com> http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/personal/eschnetter/
