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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Haravikk via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>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.</div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class=""><div>On 28 Jan 2016, at 04:02, Patrick Pijnappel via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br></span><div><span class=""><div dir="ltr"><div>It seems <font face="monospace, monospace">IntegerArithmeticType</font> should have a conversion from <font face="monospace, monospace">IntMax</font>, in analogy with <font face="monospace, monospace">Signed/UnsignedIntegerType</font>. It already has <font face="monospace, monospace">toIntMax()</font>, but not the reverse conversion. This is important to be able to write generic algorithms on <font face="monospace, monospace">IntegerArithmeticType</font>. Are there any reasons it shouldn't?<br></div></div></span>
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