"Andrei Alexandrescu" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > This is a different beast. We simply couldn't devise a satisfactory scheme > within the constraints we have. No simple solution we could think of has > worked, nor have a number of sophisticated solutions. Ideas would be > welcome, though I need to warn you that the devil is in the details so the > ideas must be fully baked; too many good sounding high-level ideas fail > when analyzed in detail. >
I assume then that you've looked at something lke C#'s checked/unchecked scheme and someone's (I forget who) idea of expanding that to something like unchecked(overflow, sign)? What was wrong with those sorts of things?
