On Thursday, 20 November 2014 at 15:40:40 UTC, Araq wrote:
Most of the statements I disagreed with were opinions.
"unsigned" means "I want to use modulo 2^^n arithmetic". It
does
not mean, "this is an integer which cannot be negative".
Opinion.
Using modulo 2^^n arithmetic is *weird*.
Opinion.
If you are using
uint/ulong to represent a non-negative integer, you are
using the
incorrect type.
Opinion.
I believe that
bugs caused by unsigned calculations are subtle and require
an
extraordinary level of diligence.
Opinion (correctly qualified as belief).
It's not only his "opinion", it's his *experience* and if we
want
to play the "argument by authority" game: he most likely wrote
more production quality code in D than you did.
Urrmmm, really? Andrei has written a hell of a lot of production
quality code. I use it every day, in production, as do many
others.
