[Swift-devel] numeric type(s) in swift.

[Ben Clifford]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Mihael Hategan wrote:

> One potentially problem-causing change (if broken code makes broken
> assumptions) is that Swift number values are not stored as strings any
> more, but as subclasses of java.lang.Number.

I think(?) that the only code that made assumptions about the number 
formats are the numerical operators and code that assumes the toString() 
output will be of a particular format when passing as a commandline 
parameter.

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