int/long unification hides bugs

[Tim Leslie]

> 
> the required range, while being different for different variables, is
> generally is less than 2**31 - & *that* can be checked by the
> language.
> 

I was trying to write a program which counted the number of times
people made stupid arguments on this list so I wrote a python program
to do it. Unfortunately you came along and caused my variable to
overflow. How was I to know I'd go above that magic number? Life sure
would be easier if ints which got too large were seamlessly converted
to longs!

-- Tim

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