>> Maybe it is better to use python? It can do long arithmetics and thus one is
>> able to reliably check whether calculations have exceeded the limit.
>
> Yeah, but wouldn't you also have to take care of overflowing in Python
> as well?
Python auto-promotes from int/long storage to basically an
infinitely-long-long so you can reasonably do things like
x = 2 ** 129
y = 3 ** 128
z = y - x
and get meaningful results that you can check against machine/vim
limits before returning to vim.
-tim
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