"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
Stephen> We demand bignums! I can't see that being all that much
Stephen> harder than having a special type that only supports addition
Stephen> and subtraction of ints, and comparision with itself.
See my mail in the other thread. Bignums are not that easy.
Stephen> At least allow addition and subtraction of the type from
Stephen> itself; then you can have arbitrarily big buffers, too.
Again...