> On Apr 16, 2016, at 12:53 PM, Dmitri Gribenko <griboz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It needs to be a signed integer. And a signed integer needs a distance type
> itself.
Yeah, there’s an infinite regress implied there, since a distance type has to
be one bit larger than its source type.
The only plausible solution is bignums. Any talk of adding those to Swift?
—Jens
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