On 3/6/2014 6:54 PM, bearophile wrote:
Walter Bright:
systems/native programming languages must not hide the underlying
representation (I make similar arguments about proposals to make ints issue
errors on overflow, etc.).
But it's good to have in Phobos a compiler-intrinsics-based efficient overflow
detection on a user-defined struct type that behaves like built-in ints in all
other aspects.
Yes, so that the user selects it, rather than having it wired in everywhere and
the user has to figure out how to defeat it.
