GDC adds intrinsic support for core.checkedint

[Robert burner Schadek via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 2 July 2015 at 20:24:55 UTC, tsbockman wrote:
>
> I don't see why the closed-ness of the integers under an 
> operation should determine whether it makes the cut or not, but 
> if that's the standard:

I wanted to have an Integral type. And Math Integrals only have 
the base operations add and mul. Shift just feels wrong to me.

>
> The built-in integer types are truly closed under the bitwise 
> operators `~`, `&`, `|`, and `^`, with no overflow, underflow, 
> or undefined combinations.

Bitwise are no math operations, these are CS operations

In the end it is a design decision. And that's how I chose.