^^ limitation

[bearophile]

Marco Leise:

> If you need this functionality use a programming language that 
> has type classes and seamlessly switches between int/BigInt 
> types, but drops the systems language attribute.

I think Lisp (that beside allowing you to use fixnums that can't 
grow, often is used with tagged integers, that switch to 
multi-precision when the number grows) was used as system 
language too (Symbolics?)

Bye,
bearophile