Treating the abusive unsigned syndrome

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Sergey Gromov wrote:
> Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:49:23 -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 
>> Sergey Gromov wrote:
>>> 2.  For those willing to port large C/C++ codebases introduce a compiler
>>> compatibility switch which would add global operators mimicking the C
>>> behavior:
>>>
>>> uint opAdd(int, uint)
>>> uint opAdd(uint, int)
>>> ulong opAdd(long, ulong)
>>> etc.
>> Having semantics depend so heavily and confusingly on a compiler switch 
>> is extremely dangerous. Note that actually quite a lot of code will 
>> compile, with different semantics, with or without the switch.
> 
> One of us should be missing something.  There was no 'different
> semantics' in my proposal.  The code either compiles and behaves exactly
> like in C or does not compile at all.  The amount of code which compiles
> or fails depends on a compiler switch, not semantics.

Sorry, I misunderstood.

Andrei