Ken Takata wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> 2016/7/13 Wed 5:44:06 UTC+9 Ben Fritz wrote:
> > The recent updates to Vim to support 64-bit integers broke a plugin I was
> > using that provides a vimscript implementation of a pseudorandom number
> > generator, by sending it into a near-infinite loop.
> >
> > The problem was that the plugin assumes 32-bit integers, so I "fixed" it
> > with a bitwise and() in the internal logic with a 32-bit integer max value.
> >
> > But I'd rather just update to use 64-bit integers.
> >
> > I could hard-code maximums based on has(num64), but would it be useful in
> > general to just make a v:max_number or something which would contain the
> > maximum value for a Number variable? I'd rather use something built-in than
> > hard-code it anywhere it's needed.
>
> I wrote a patch for this:
> https://bitbucket.org/k_takata/vim-ktakata-mq/src/201d986bfabca7b759b7cbb9a4703e9996b8fc43/v_max_number.patch?fileviewer=file-view-default
>
> BTW, the result of `1/0` cannot be used for this?
Yes, you can use 1/0, it's documented.
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