Martin McClure <martin at hand2mouse.com> wrote:
> I can think of historical and performance reasons for allowing bit
> manipulations on integers, but I'd be interested to hear any *other*
> reasons why people find this a good idea.

Read any good cryptology papers lately?

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let magic f = fun x -> x and more_magic n f = fun x -> f ((n f) x);;