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		ReleaseCandidat on Nov 6, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Const Generics in Rust > [...] max value (which inherently all integer values should have) No, they shouldn't. Would really prevent many subtle bugs if the default integers of every language would be arbitrary precision ints.

willvarfar on Nov 6, 2021 [–]

Python is an example language with “big integers”.

Things quickly get interesting interoperating with other languages eg via json.

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