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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 03:32:54 -0600
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On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Thomas Rachel
<nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de>
wrote:
> Am 25.09.2012 00:37 schrieb Ian Kelly:
>> Since ints are immutable, the language specifies that it should be the
>> equivalent of "file.pos = file.pos - 100", so it should set the file
>> pointer to 68 bytes before EOF.
>
>
> But this is not a "real int", it has a special use. So I don't think it is
> absolutely required to behave like an int.

The point of the proposal was to simplify the API.  With that in mind,
if it's supposed to look like an int, then it should *be* an int.