On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 11:22:00AM -0300, Ary Borenszweig via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 11/20/14, 5:02 AM, Walter Bright wrote: [...] > >As for me personally, I like having a complete set of signed and > >unsigned integral types at my disposal. It's like having a full set > >of wrenches that are open end on one end and boxed on the other :-) > >Most of the time either end will work, but sometimes only one will. > > > >Now, if D were a non-systems language like Basic, Go or Java, > >unsigned types could be reasonably dispensed with. But D is a systems > >programming language, and it ought to have available types that match > >what the hardware supports. > > > > Nobody is saying to remove unsigned types from the language. They have > their uses. It's just that using them for an array's length leads to > subtle bugs. That's all.
Using unsigned types for array length doesn't necessarily lead to subtle bugs, if the language was stricter about mixing signed and unsigned values. T -- Recently, our IT department hired a bug-fix engineer. He used to work for Volkswagen.
