JuliaLang/julia — comment on commit fef42cc01e2bdbc66c941d4ad70f1e4b4014ea40
File: j/string.j line 839
By JeffBezanson:

It's a detail, but it's better to always parse as Int64/Uint64 and convert, since there's no reason to insist that `parse_int` work with a particular type. And should `parse_int` accept a leading sign? Seems it probably should.