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Graydon Hoare originally wanted integers to be promoted to bignums on overflow, but that didn't happen. https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html https://gra

• jacquesm 3y ago
  That's really the only proper solution for this problem.
  • jcranmer 3y ago
    Not necessarily the only proper solution--hard failure, like array out-of-bounds errors, is also often an acceptable solution.
    • jacquesm 3y ago
      That highly depends on the execution environment. In Erlang for instance that would be an acceptable solution. But most other environments don't deal nearly as gracefully with runtime errors.
    • rsaxvc 3y ago
      MIPS on GCC defaulted to trapping integer overflows, but they had non trapping instructions too.