| It'd be lovely if the Haskell report took a stand on the 
| issue, but I suspect that may be too much to hope for.  

Actually, it'd be an easy, non-destablising change to make
to the Report to specify the behaviour of the Int instance of
fromInteger on numbers larger than will fit in an Int.

If a consensus emerges I'm quite happy to enshrine it in H98.

Simon
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