Alan Grimes <alangrimes at starpower.net> wrote:

> I am still trying to puzzle out why the "positive32BitInt" function 
> seems to do a byte-order conversion when faced with a long int....
It's compensating for possible endianness issues. The code as is works
for both littleendian and bigendian.  Large integers are byte objects,
SmallIntegers are cpu-endian dependent word objects.
> 
> Futhermore, why is there a negative long int class?
Because the code works out quit nicely that way. It saves having a flag
for +/- - which is after all a useful aspect of inheritance.


tim
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