sb> I agree. Comments? Bob Weiner <weiner(a)altrasoft.com&gt; writes: As you know, it only works up to 2004 even with 31-bit integers, unless we introduce an unsigned type. But other people want negative dates; not all creation myths start with the PDP-8. We demand bignums! I can't see that being all that much harder than having a special type that only supports addition and subtraction of ints, and comparision with itself. At least allow addition and subtraction of the type from itself; then you can have arbitrarily big buffers, too. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 Give me that bit! It's mine. All mine! I just want it, OK? Now! Please?