A quick question: what is the intended behaviour of the
Hugs/ghc extension types Int8, Int16, Int32, and Int64
with regard to overflow? The documentation for the Word*
types says that they compute modulo arithmetic, but there
is no similar guarantee for the Int* types. Is it the
intention that their behaviour on overflow is deliberately
left undefined? Or is it safe to rely on them just wrapping
on overflow?
Either way, I think it would be a good idea to clarify this
in the Hugs/GHC Extension libraries documentation.
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