My Language Feature Requests

[Craig Black]

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> Unless I am missing something, this would require a run-time check for 
> each pointer assignment or pointer arithmetic operation.  Personally, I 
> would make every effort to avoid this overhead.  Pointers should be 
> lightweight and fast.

I hereby detract this statement.  These run-time checks could be optional. 
They could be like asserts or bounds-checking that is removed in release 
mode.  Then all that compile-time stuff I mentioned before would be 
unnecessary I think.