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1. Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Friday, 20-Jan-2023 05:34:06 JST Julia Evans

   integer overflow

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Jan-2023 06:06:12 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     @b0rk Though regarding functional languages...

     Haskell does have big ints built-in (called "Integer"s), but also fixed-size ints (called "Int"s). I'm not entirely sure which we it defaults, I'm mostly working with floats or other types.

   • Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Friday, 20-Jan-2023 06:06:15 JST Julia Evans

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     I think the list of languages that *don't* have integer overflow might be shorter actually. From quick research:

     * Python 3 and Ruby's integer types are big integers (they get as big as can fit in memory)
     * JS numbers are floating point, which causes different problems (but not integer overflow). JS has big integers too though.
     * large PHP integers convert to floating point (similarly, can cause problems but not integer overflow)
     * (from the replies) lots of functional languages have big ints