On Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 8:01:05 PM UTC-4, Gary Fredericks wrote:
>
> I've always thought this is bad behavior, since it's blatantly doing the 
> opposite of what the name advertises. I think either the boxed versions 
> should return the same result as the unboxed version, or (if the whole 
> point is to give good performance and so we don't want want users to be 
> able to accidentally use the unboxed versions) it should throw at 
> compile-time for boxed args.
>

Or it could emit just a warning at compile-time, and give the same result 
at run-time as the unboxed version. Then you don't have to stop everything 
else you're doing and fix the boxed math first, when you might have higher 
priorities. The warnings will remind you to fix it eventually. 

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