On Sat 09 Jun 2012 14:59:21 EDT, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > On 09/06/12 20:48, Kevin wrote: >> On 09/06/12 14:42, Minas wrote: >>>> With >>>> ints, the best we can do is 0. With floats, NaN makes it better. >>> >>> With the logic that NaN is the default for floats, 0 is a very bad >>> choice for ints. It the worst we could do. Altough I understand that >>> setting it to something else like -infinity is still not a good choice. >> Is it just me but do ints not have infinity values? > > in Mathematics yes, but not in D. > > I think ints should >> default to about half of their capacity (probably negative for signed). > > This would be machine depends, as such it should be avoided. > >> This way you are unlikely to get an off-by-one for an uninitialized >> values. > > something as a Not an Integer NaI should be better.
I just don't think it is a good idea to add more metadata to ints.
