checkedint call removal

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 07/30/2014 06:55 PM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Timon Gehr"  wrote in message news:lrb6lf$2tf$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
>> I mean, we have at least:
>> <list>
>
> You forgot 'float', which has nothing to do with levitation.
> ...

:D

> This is all true, yet we have to pick names for things.  We could call
> D's purity 'flarwurghle', but is that really better?  D's purity is much
> more closely related to other concepts of purity than it is to
> flarwurghling.
> ...

'flarwurghle' indeed seems a little bit off too.

> And don't forget int, which is not actually an integer.
> ...

I didn't, I though that one was too debatable to bring up because it 
already has become to be standard in some notable existing programming 
languages. :)

>> To me, the apt response to a relative newcomer who gets confused by
>> one of those or something like them, especially when used without
>> quotation marks, is not at all similar to "You're misunderstanding and
>> misusing this feature, stop making noise."
>
> No, but that is the similar to the correct response when somebody
> repeatedly argues that you've defined something wrong because somebody
> else defined it differently.
> ...

I must have missed that.

> The discussion on how we _should_ define it is much more interesting,
> and ideally the other one would not come up at all.

Agreed.