[Haskell-cafe] A few questions on primes generating.

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 11:23:59PM +0800, L.Guo wrote:
> Because 10,000,000 is too large for a Int, it is always in type of Integer or some higher level data type.

In Haskell, Int always supports at least -536,870,912 to 536,870,911.

Also, large numbers don't (this is arguably a bug...) have restricted
types:

stefan at stefans:~$ ghc -e '1000000000000000000 :: Int'
-1486618624
stefan at stefans:~$ 

Stefan
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