On Tuesday, 11 July 2017 at 19:57:06 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
On Tuesday, 11 July 2017 at 19:46:00 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
The Weka folks would like to see a compile error on negating unsigned types:

Also this nice hackery would need a workaround:
```
   if ((y&(-y))==y)
```

http://www.exploringbinary.com/ten-ways-to-check-if-an-integer-is-a-power-of-two-in-c/

"The two’s complement of x is computed with ~x + 1, which inverts the bits of x and adds 1 (~x + 1 is equivalent to -x, but negation is technically illegal for an unsigned integer)."

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