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Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote this message on Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 22:28 +0200:
> 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.

I didn't check the new version, but maybe a function that allows you
to specify the min/max values allows...  This would let the user not
have to write their own range checking code...

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