Prothon vs. Python integers

[Mark Hahn]

"Peter Hickman" <peter at semantico.com> wrote

> > Longs seemed like a needless exotic kludge to me in the 64-bit world.
Surely
> > once you get to 3.7e19 you are in floating point territory. I can't
imagine
> > counting anything up to 10**19.
>
> Except all those sad people doing that thing called 'maths'.
>
> Sorry but one of my requirements for a language is that is can handle
integers of any size quickly and easily (and a good integer square root
would be nice). However I always seem to
> end up coding with C and GMP.

I said in this thread at noon yesterday that I was wrong and that I will
implement longs.