JuliaLang/julia — comment on commit e9e933c6cc48bfdd098311213bf9e8e9d5d9c760
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By StefanKarpinski:

We really should make hex literals have storage size based on the number of digits. (There's an issue for this somewhere.) When I looked into this before the problem was that flisp just passes integer values to Julia — a bunch of extra plumbing would be necessary to pass the type value back.