On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 05:26:25PM +0000, Nick Treleaven via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Friday, 9 February 2024 at 15:19:32 UTC, bachmeier wrote: > > It's been discussed many, many times. The behavior is not going to > > change - there won't even be a compiler warning. (You'll have to > > check with the leadership for their reasons.) > > Was (part of) the reason because it would disrupt existing code? If > that was the blocker then editions are the solution.
Honestly, I think this issue is blown completely out of proportion. The length of stuff in any language needs to be some type. D decided on an unsigned type. You just learn that and adapt your code accordingly, end of story. Issues like these can always be argued both ways, and the amount of energy spent in these debates far outweigh the trivial workarounds in code, of which there are many (use std.conv.to for bounds checks, just outright cast it if you know what you're doing (or just foolhardy), use CheckedInt, etc.). And the cost of any change to the type now also far, far outweighs any meager benefits it may have brought. It's just not worth it, IMNSHO. T -- Verbing weirds language. -- Calvin (& Hobbes)
