JuliaLang/julia — comment on commit 1253a2e8c0ba4806cf238a6278a887c6762e6bf6
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By JeffBezanson:

Even C doesn't handle this syntax case well. If we make "-" part of the literal syntax, then `-18446744073709551615` probably has to be an error, but I guess that's better since the number isn't representable at all. Anyway, it's not such a huge issue since this is what `typemin(Int64)` is for :)