Signed word lengths and indexes

[Walter Bright]

div0 wrote:
> I do think that allowing un-casted assignments between signed/unsigned 
> is a problem though; that's where most of the bugs creep up I've come 
> across crop up. I think D should simply disallow implicit mixing of 
> signd-ness.

Andrei and I went down that alley for a while. It's not practical.


> Hasn't that been discussed before? (I'm not referring to the recent post 
> in d.learn) It seems familiar.

Yes, many times.