> In an ideal world, a function that only works for small integers would bake that into its type system. Ie, rather than accepting “any integer”, the function w

> In an ideal world, a function that only works for small integers would bake that into its type system. Ie, rather than accepting “any integer”, the function would accept a u8, or a value compile-time guaranteed in the range of 0..10 or something. Ada takes this approach.