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Isn't uint8 exactly what your 'integer[modulo 256]' is? And for unbounded you do need bignum and dynamic allocation so I'm not sure I see any benefits to explicitely fine-graining the range instead of using machine word at all times and bignums when needed

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> Isn't uint8 exactly what your 'integer[modulo 256]' is

In c/c++ it is. Obviously some other languages would disagree.

I think a better example of what GP is thinking about is Rust's approach, where overflowing an u8 panics (in debug builds), but you can do x.wrapping_add(y), x.saturating_add(y), x.checked_add(y) etc., depending on what you want to happen when the operation overflows.

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