Integer promotion... what I'm missing? (It's monday...)

[Lionello Lunesu]

Tony wrote:
> I would prefer that any type promotions (and any implicit operations for 
> that matter) should guarantee not to introduce any data corruption.  In this 
> case, promote both numbers to a third type which can hold all possible 
> values from both.

I agree!

Perhaps this could also prevent the "array.length-1" bug (which is ~0 
when array.length == 0), by making "array.length-1" a "long" instead of 
a "uint".

L.