Signed word lengths and indexes

[Walter Bright]

Stephan wrote:
> On 15.06.2010 19:41, Walter Bright wrote:
>> 3. The compiler could be easily modified to add a switch that prevents
>> such features from being used. This is no different from the
>> customizations done to C compilers for kernel dev.
> 
> Why not make such a change in a future release of the official version ?

It's pretty low on the priority list, because the absence of such a switch would 
not prevent you from using D as a better C compiler.