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Marcin Grzegorczyk <mgrzegor@poczta.onet.pl> writes:
> (Nota bene: The original article actually proposed INTPARAM to expand
> to three arguments, encoding size and signedness separately;
> obviously, this would be unnecessarily wasteful.)

The use of separate extra parameters for each class of additional
information was more to make the concept easier and quicker to pick up
for evaluation.

Indeed all the necessary additional runtime information could be encoded
into a single int-sized parameter by INTPARAM() or whatever we want to
call it in a final specification.

-- 
						Greg A. Woods
						RoboHack

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