In Julia Base, signed and unsigned accept integer types as arguments. It would be good if BitIntegers.jl could support this.
julia> signed(UInt8)
Int8
julia> signed(UInt256)
ERROR: MethodError: no method matching rem(::Type{UInt256}, ::Type{Int256})
The function `rem` exists, but no method is defined for this combination of argument types.
In Julia
Base,signedandunsignedaccept integer types as arguments. It would be good if BitIntegers.jl could support this.