What about having Int be considered a restricted integer that notices overflow, and create another type (bit bunch?) that does not notice overflow, and require explicit conversion to go from one to the other? This would seem to be the best of both worlds. The "bit bunch" type could also provide useful info about its size. It could even be possible to have a "machine-specific bit-bunch" of the same size as an Int or bit bunch, but with machine-specified overflow behavior that the programmer can discover (whether this should be at compile-time or run-time I couldn't say).
Question: Is there any standard way in Haskell of determining the maximal and minimal Int values? If not, there should. David Feuer _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
