Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Andrei Alexandrescu" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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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?
An unchecked-based approach was not on the table. Our focus was more on
checking things properly, instead of over-checking and then relying on
"unchecked" to disable that.
Andrei
