Should languages use arbitrary sized integers by default?
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(1) Int: This produces cascading errors.
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Opinions?
I'm slightly surprised that Rust has implemented the Default trait for booleans: https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/core/default.rs.html#205
The default is false, but it feels very arbitrary. Maybe it makes more sense next to integers, where the default value is 0.
Integers in Emacs Lisp are now arbitrary size, not just 32/64-bit!