Re: integer arithmetics

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:31 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On  2-Oct-2008, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
>
> | I'm not sure. I can easily imagine people complaining that 2*a for a
> | of int64 type isn't working. But I can maybe play with it a while
> | longer.
>
> Can we detect and warn about loss of precision?  Or make that an
> error?  In that case, I guess the range of values handled would be
> smaller, but at least we could handle the most common cases and also
> not produce incorrect results.

That would mean another flag... I'd rather avoid it because I'm still
hoping I'll figure out a complete solution soon. But I agree with
putting off this changeset until I sort this out.

> But maybe that is worse than not
> having the feature?
>




> jwe
>



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