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On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:

> Returning to this thread after a short break. I removed all
> {,u}int{8,16.32.64} types and implemented only 'number' type which is
> uint64_t. Looks much nicer now.

The numeric type should be floating point.  Or better yet, bignum.  Or
more practically, uintmax_t.

Bruce