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[Haravikk]

I agree, I think this would require all integer types to have mandatory init(_:IntMax), init(_:UIntMax), init(truncatingBitPattern:IntMax) and init(truncatingBitPattern:UIntMax) constructors? Would make working with arbitrary sized integers in a generic way a lot easier.

> On 28 Jan 2016, at 04:02, Patrick Pijnappel via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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> It seems IntegerArithmeticType should have a conversion from IntMax, in analogy with Signed/UnsignedIntegerType. It already has toIntMax(), but not the reverse conversion. This is important to be able to write generic algorithms on IntegerArithmeticType. Are there any reasons it shouldn't?
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