JuliaLang/julia — comment on commit 1a2051efd52a02af83e6c6751c31f291d672bcdd
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By ViralBShah:

Yes - but I wanted to keep the code more general and not make assumptions . At some point, user code can specify the integer storage type in constructors and then use that for cases where it is worth it.

-viral

On Dec 2, 2011, at 1:58 AM, Stefan Karpinski wrote:

> This isn't exactly a failure of type inference: the result type depends on the input *value* which is never going to be possible to do inference on. Just saying.
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