> Instead of barfing when assigning a Float to an Int, just auto round? Because you can’t really round many floats to Int. A float can be larger than 10^38. I

> Instead of barfing when assigning a Float to an Int, just auto round? Because you can’t really round many floats to Int. A float can be larger than 10^38. If you ‘round’ that to a 64-bit signed integer, you have to return something that’s smaller than 10^19. For doubles, it’s even worse. They can be larger than 10^308. I think that indicates that “just auto round” isn’t an option. The option “if a reasonable conversion exists, make it, otherwise bail out” IMO is a lot worse than having a way to try that conversion and somehow indicate to the programmer when it failed.