Does D have too many features?

[Timon Gehr]

On 04/30/2012 05:21 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> On 30-04-2012 08:37, jerro wrote:
>>> Sorry, I managed to get myself confused here. What I meant to say was
>>> that I think >> should do an arithmetic shift if the operands are
>>> signed; unsigned shift otherwise.
>>
>> It does arithmetic shift if the left operand is signed,
>> unsigned shift otherwise. This code:
>>
>> void main()
>> {
>> int a = 0xffffffff;
>> uint b = a;
>> writefln("%x", a >> 1);
>> writefln("%x", b >> 1);
>> }
>>
>> prints
>>
>> ffffffff
>> 7fffffff
>>
>
> The documentation disagrees:
> http://dlang.org/expression.html#ShiftExpression
>
> It claims that it always does arithmetic shift and >>> always does
> unsigned shift.
>

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8007