On Wednesday, 12 December 2012 at 03:10:15 UTC, d coder wrote:
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:40 AM, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com>wrote:
No worries there :-) I feel pretty dang strongly about this
issue, from
bad experience.
Even if a language behaves "wrong", it is still usable if it is
predictable.
Agreed.
How about this.
1. Let "char" and "short" behave the C/C++ way. These can
return integers.
This will make C/C++ code work in D.
2. Make D "byte" operations return bytes. And create another
type (named
say dbyte or shortint) and make operations on the new type
return
shortints. This will make these types more usable in D code.
Well we end up
adding another keyword, but we shall get workable and safe
8-bit and 16-bit
integrals.
Regards
- Puneet
What's now is safer than what you propose. You can always create
your own data type that would automatically truncate result if
you wish so.
