]> On Thursday 30 October 2003 03:05 pm, Issac Trotts wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 02:53:32PM +0100, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote: > > I understand that int overflow is not checked on arithmetic for > > efficiency reasons, but IMHO it would be better if it was checked > > at least in literals. When someone writes 10000000000, he certainly > > does not mean -737418240. > > If you want to be sure that the number is correctly stored, you can use > Int64: > > Int64.of_string "10000000000" > > Issac Or, better yet, use Big_int: Objective Caml version 3.06 # Int64.of_string "10000000000000000000";; - : int64 = <int64 -8446744073709551616> # #load "nums.cma";; # Big_int.big_int_of_string "10000000000000000000";; -- Oleg Trott <oleg_trott@columbia.edu> ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners