On 3/29/07, Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org> wrote:
>
>
> Wether this behavior (silent wrap around) is correct or not is another
> argument.  Elsewhere I have opinioned that the only purpose for having
> more than one type of integer in your programming language is so that
> programmers can pick the wrong one.  But I'm widely known to be a heretic.
>
> Ocaml's behavior is, at least, *consistent*.


Not really all that consistent:

# int_of_string "1073741824";;
- : int = -1073741824
# int_of_string "1073741825";;
Exception: Failure "int_of_string".
#
y

Brian
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