Apologies if the comment sounded like I was trying to provoke. My point was that there is a line, and different languages draw the line in different places. It'

Apologies if the comment sounded like I was trying to provoke. My point was that there is a line, and different languages draw the line in different places. It's true that ints _can_ be made more library-like, but it's also true that most people don't complain about them being built-in to nearly the same degree as, say, built-in maps.