On 02/15/2010 09:15 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
For example, there is no possible way a person unfamiliar with computers (and most programmers who have not run into this) would believe that b = 5; a = -b;
Tell any math major that fixnum arithmetic is really just arithmetic modulo 2^32 and they would believe you, even if they had never heard of computers
would result in a being some large positive number. It's just totally unexpected, and totally avoidable. -Steve
