[M3devel] Unbounded but finite LONGINT (was: Re: Integers

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 07:53:07PM -0500, Tony Hosking wrote:
> I think what you are advocating is Rodney's proposal + assignability 
> of INTEGER and LONGINT + mixed arithmetic.

I thought Rodney's propsal still had the compiler impose a bound on the 
size of LONGINT.  Or did I miss something?

I'm proposing to let the programmer use subranges of LONGINT that are as 
long as he wishes.  And if the computer runs out of virtual memory to 
store one of the programmer's long integers, well, that's the computer 
imposing the limit, not the language.

-- hendrik