not really Re: Style guides and portability

[Dave Eisen]

I said (regarding setting up a generic bigint type with all the 
stuff needed to avoid having casts or other stuff sprinkled
throughout the source code):

>
>It doesn't seem worth it to me. I expect I'll regret that decision
>someday.
>

I take that back. I don't think I'll regret it.

I suspect I'll be coding in C++ (where this sort of stuff is much 
more convenient) long before I'll be porting any of my code to 
a machine with a radically different architecture. 



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