Yeah, I had a conversation a few weeks ago with a coworker where he misremembered that as being what was in the lcc book. I actually posted about this here (inc

Yeah, I had a conversation a few weeks ago with a coworker where he misremembered that as being what was in the lcc book. I actually posted about this here (including an excerpt from Steele and Harbinson) ten days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2935583 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2935583. I notice my description there was slightly bungled since I forgot that after the cast for negative integers you of course have to do an unsigned negation (otherwise -1 would be mapped to UINT_MAX, for example).