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On Aug 11, 5:54=A0pm, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:37:28 -0500, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> > There are uses for wrapping types, but they are far less likely than wa=
nting
> > overflow detection. The default should be to catch errors, not turn the=
m
> > into different ones.
>
> The OP mentioned image processing, the behavior frequently needed there i=
s
> saturated integer arithmetic, which is nether ranged nor modular.
>
> As for modular types, wrapping is the mathematically correct behavior, it
> is not an error.
>
> You just cannot provide every possible arithmetic at the language level.

Signed and unsigned arithmetic are provided in PL/I.
Thus, 0:2**32-1 is available for unsigned binary arithmetic.
So is 0:2**64-1.