Re: Int vs Integer

[Hans Aberg]

At 19:54 +0100 98/09/24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>   The generalization of the Int type, as I see it, is a binary type, a
>> sequence of bit of fixed length, which has special operations such as
>> right/left shift with under/overflow, rotations, signed/unsigned arithmetic
>> and Boolean bit operations.
>
>agreed, though I think there is a strong case of providing most of
>those operations on Integer too (perhaps at a different type).

  Then some of those operations, like complement and rotate, probably
should have the bit length of the operation as an extra argument.

  Hans Aberg
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