On Friday, 21 November 2014 at 09:43:04 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
C# doesn't encourage usage of unsigned types and warns that they are not CLS-compliant. You're going against established practices there. And signed types for numbers works wonders in C# without any notable problem and makes reasoning about code easier as you don't have to manually check for unsigned conversion bugs everywhere.
I don't want to be CLS compliant! I make very heavy use of unsafe code, stackalloc and interop to worry about CLS compliance. Actually one of the major reasons I am looking at D for production code is so that I don't have to mix and match Assembly, C/C++ with C#. I want the best of all worlds in one language/runtime :).
Anyways, I believe the discussion is about using unsigned for array lengths, not unsigned in general. At this point most people seem to express an opinion - including me, and I certainly hope D stays as it is when it comes to length of an array. I am not convinced in the slightest that signed is the way to go.
