[cctalk] Re: Try Algol 68 on Windows

Yes, it certainly had that feature. I'm not sure about the limits, I thought the integer limit was 99 digits. The reason for these options is that it's directly supported by the hardware, which has arbitrary length integers and (up to a limit I forgot) floating point mantissas. Given the encoding in the hardware, it makes sense that you could mix and match; the hardware would accept operands of whatever size you pick, in whatever combination you like. So, for example, adding a 3 digit integer to a 300 digit integer would work just fine.