Martin Duerst wrote:
> At 09:19 09/02/23, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
>> Yes, that would be desirable, if there's not a good reason they aren't immediates now.
> 
> The main reason they are not immediates now is that they do not fit
> in four bytes. Once everybody uses 64-bit machines, the problem might
> go away :-).

Perhaps we should start pretending they're immediates now, and specify 
these methods to do nothing for Float (or else specify that it's 
unspecified). I know there's been talk of making Float also be an 
immediate for some future version of 1.9.

- Charlie