Re: Text_IO for other standard types

["Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>]

I think the answer may be that the modular types defined in the Interfaces
package do not tell anyone which type corresponds to the most natural
modular type for the target machine (e.g. because of the machine's bus
width or CPU register size), as the type Integer is assumed to do for
integer types.

There are occasions when knowing such a 'natural' modular type would be
helpful (e.g. programming 'bignums'); the provision of an appropriate
predefined modular type would therefore be genuinely helpful.

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Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote in article
<dewar.884903275@merv>...
> What is wrong with the predefined modular types that are in the language
> now (see Interfaces). I assume it is clear why you would just as soon
> not have these types in Standard!