I'm guessing the reason is more involved than "because nobody asked", but
such a capability would be nice for my dinky little LazyObject class. I
suppose a reasonable workaround would be to force my SmallInteger into a
Large(Positive|Negative)Integer, or make a wrapper for the SmallInteger.


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