> > Isn't the 'long' format the more general representation, with the 'int' > > format then being a performance hack to take advantage of the speed of C > > integer arithmetic? > > > > I'm just wondering if a different way of thinking about it might help > > with figuring out how to handle a combined implementation. > > I proposed that too, but Andrew Koenig didn't like it. It's not me, it's Barbara Liskov at MIT. The general notion is that if Y is derived from X, then you should be able to use a Y wherever you might otherwise want to use an X. In other words, Y should support every operation that X supports, but Y can add operations of its own.
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