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

That was slightly vestigial — I had attempted to add overflow checking, but found that it was harder than I thought and probably requires hardware overflow flagging support. If you're doing overflow checking, you want it to be type-specific. I can make this handle signs for signed types too.

On Feb 1, 2012, at 4:42 PM, JeffBezanson wrote:

> 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.
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