On 22/06/14 06:43 PM, Clark Gaebel wrote: > I think a reasonable middle ground is to have checked operators that > look a little funny. Kind of like swift, but in reverse: > >> malloc((number_of_elements +~ 12) *~ size_of::<int>()) > > Where adding a ~ to the end of an operator makes it check for overflow. > This would certainly look nicer than stuff like: > >> malloc(number_of_elements.checked_add(12).checked_mul(size_of::<int>())) > > lying around in low level data structures code. > > It also keeps the default fast, which is very important. > > - Clark
Along with an opt-in lint to warn about usage of the unchecked operators, I think that's the way to go. Since it would be backwards compatible, it doesn't need to be done before 1.0.
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