Signed word lengths and indexes

[Walter Bright]

Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> On 06/14/2010 05:48 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> D provides powerful abstractions for iteration; it is becoming less and
>> less desirable to hand-build loops with for-statements.
> 
> Ooo ooo, can we remove it?

No :-)


>> I have a hard time believing that Python and Ruby are more productive
>> primarily because they do not have an unsigned type.
> 
> They're more productive because their built in number types aren't 
> fixnums. That's a nice large class of errors that don't exist in those 
> languages.

Like I said, this didn't appear in Python until quite recently (3.0), so that 
cannot be the primary productivity advantage of Python.