On Apr 16, 2011, at 8:22 AM, Patrick Walton wrote: > On 04/15/2011 11:20 PM, Patrick Walton wrote: >> This area seems promising enough that I was wondering if there was >> interest in something like this for Rust. There's no harm in having the >> programmer explicitly be able to turn off the checking at the block or >> item level; some algorithms, such as hashing algorithms, rely on the >> overflow semantics, after all. But it seems in the spirit of Rust (at >> the risk of relying on a nebulous term) to be as safe as possible by >> default, and so I'd like to propose exploring opt-out overflow checking >> for integers at some point in the future. > > To be clear: I'm not proposing that we promote to bignums or anything like > that. Most likely we'd just fail on integer overflow by default.
Yes, we've talked about this in the past with roc -- failure would be better than wrapping around. /be _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
