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From:
Jon Lang
Date:
November 14, 2010 03:33
Subject:
Re: Packed arrays and assignment vs binding
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On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Moritz Lenz <moritz@faui2k3.org> wrote:
> On IRC, Jonathan said that 1 is basically an Int, which is something
> like a boxed int. So whatever operation works removes the box, and puts
> the result in the variable.
>
> However I wonder how well that's going to work, since Int can store
> arbitrarily large integers, while int can't.
> What happens on overflow?

An exception gets thrown, I'm guessing.

-- 
Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang

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