int/long unification hides bugs

[Michael J. Fromberger]

In article <940ee3e8.0410250456.65445bbd at posting.google.com>,
 kartick_vaddadi at yahoo.com (kartik) wrote:

> there seems to be a serious problem with allowing numbers to grow in a
> nearly unbounded manner, as int/long unification does: it hides bugs.

Can you exhibit any non-trivial examples of the types of bugs you are 
talking about?

-M

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Michael J. Fromberger             | Lecturer, Dept. of Computer Science
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sting/  | Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA