checkedint call removal

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Aug 1 13:55:39 PDT 2014


On 8/1/2014 12:09 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 	A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day. "In
> 	English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive. In some
> 	languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a
> 	negative. However, there is no language wherein a double
> 	positive can form a negative." A voice from the back of the room
> 	piped up, "Yeah, yeah."

English is quite the merry language with this. (Reversing the meaning of 
"merry", ho-ho!)

It's also why D doesn't support ! in version, and why I'm a strong advocate of 
not having negated features.

Of course, D has "no-throw" and "im-mutable". Arggh.


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