[Vm-dev] Sometimes it's too easy, part II

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Thu Jan 26 10:42:36 UTC 2017


Awesome! However ...

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The default type for oops in the VM is sqInt (*), which is signed.
>

... since this keeps biting us time and time again, how hard would it be to
change? Defaulting to unsigned seems much more reasonable, no? Unless we're
dealing with SmallIntegers, which have to be special-cased anyways, we
never want unsigned behavior, right?

- Bert -
(*) fixed the typo
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