Specifying type of Integer Literals

[hopscc]

There was some discussion a while ago about specifying the type of a fractional literal ( decimal, float) using various suffixes
(see "New Number type and -number:type option" topic)

I thought a logical extension of that would be to allow suffixes for integer literals to specify size and sign so that rather than
this sort of casting redundancy

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a as int64 = 1000 as int64
l = 73 as int64


you could do something 'nicer' like this

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a as int64 = 1000_i64
l as int64 = 73_i64
# or more conveniently
l = 73_i64


Heres a patch that supports int literals with a suffix (i|_i)(8,16,32,64)? or (u|_u)(8,16,32,64).

[hopscc]

And heres the test file

[Charles]

Thanks. I'll take a look this week.

[Charles]

Applied. Thanks.