Tim Peters <t...@python.org> added the comment:
Nick, that seems a decent compromise. "Infinite string of sign bits" is how
Guido & I both thought of it when the semantics of longs were first defined,
and others in this report apparently find it natural enough too. It also
applies to all 6 operations in the table as-is.
It appears that
a bit-width of ``1 + max(x.bit_length(), y.bit_length()``
only applies as-is to 3 (~ has only one operand, while the bit length of the
RHS doesn't matter for << and >>). Provided that's clarified, I'd only suggest
inserting "at least" before "one extra sign extension bit" and after "a
bit-width of". That's a bridge between the "infinite" and
"fixed-albeit-variable-width" views: "plus 1" is the smallest approximation to
infinity that works, but anything at least that large works too.
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