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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote in message 
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> Modular types are something altogether different (and in all honesty, 
> rare enough that direct language support is of dubious value -- most of 
> us supported adding them to Ada 95 simply because it was the only way 
> to get any support for the largest unsigned integer type).
>

Isn't the wrapping behavior just a consequence of wanting to get a 
representation in which signed and unsigned integers can be easily 
converted to each other? I.e., "they" didn't sit down and say, "let's 
implement unsigned integers with wrapping behavior".