On Wednesday, 19 November 2014 at 20:40:53 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu:
There are related bugs in Java too, e.g. I remember one in
binary search where (i + j) / 2 was wrong because of an
overflow.
This is possible in D too.
Also, Java does have a package for unsigned integers so
apparently it's necessary.
This is irrelevant. No one here is saying that a system
language should not have unsigned values. The discussion here
is about the type of array lengths.
Bye,
bearophile
The only signed types that are able to represent all possible
array lengths on 64 bit systems are long double and cent.
