bearophileh...@lycos.com wrote: > JanC: >> In most "modern" Pascal dialects the overflow checks can be (locally) >> enabled or disabled with compiler directives in the source code, > > I think that was possible in somewhat older versions of Pascal-like > languages too (like old Delphi versions, and maybe TurboPascals too).
Yeah, I think Turbo Pascal supported this since v3 or v4 at least. (By "modern" I meant as opposed to the original Pascal & the other "classic" Pascals that were available before Turbo Pascal came around.) >>so the "speed issue" is not a real issue in practice...< > > How can I help Walter (the designer and writer of the D language) > understand this? Do you have articles or other ways that support this > point of view? "Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming" ? ;-) <http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PrematureOptimization> (And D became way too complicated over the years, so I'm not really interested in it much anymore.) -- JanC -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
