On 02/16/2010 12:36 PM, bearophile wrote:
Ellery Newcomer:
OT: has anyone written a wrapper for int/long/etc that throws exceptions
on overflow/underflow? Maybe such a thing should exist in the standard
library?
No, that idea is trash. Think about arrays, do you want to litter your code
with a different type of array that test the index bounds? Surely not. You want
the built-in arrays to test the bounds (with eventually a compilation option to
disable such tests), as in D. The same is true for integral numbers, as done in
Delphi/C#.
Sure, I'd sooner have it built in to the compiler. Is it? A quick peek
in your dlibs suggests it wasn't when you wrote powMod
