Walter Bright wrote:
bearophile wrote:
Python integers don't overflow,
this at the same time allows you to safe
brain time and brain power thinking about possible overflows and the
code to
avoid their risk, and makes coding more relaxed. And if you try to
write 50
Project Euler programs in Python and D you will surely see how many
bugs the
Python code has avoided you compared to D. Finding and fixing such
bugs in D
code requires lot of time that you save in Python.
This is where we differ. I very rarely have a bug due to overflow or
signed/unsigned differences.
One was fixed in this week's DMD release.
http://www.dsource.org/projects/dmd/changeset/491
It's interesting to think how this could have been avoided.
