You've pretty much answered your own question here. You're not missing anything and yeah wrapping it into an object is a solution, or if speed doesn't matter you may simply store strings and use int <-> string collections.
Ideally, BRL should implement standard TInt, TFloat (etc) wrapper types, and even better implement specialized types for integer lists. That's easily doable by yourself, but a standard implemenmentation would be nicer.
Ideally, BRL should implement standard TInt, TFloat (etc) wrapper types, and even better implement specialized types for integer lists. That's easily doable by yourself, but a standard implemenmentation would be nicer.