Voting for std.experimental.checkedint

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On Sunday, 26 February 2017 at 09:41:46 UTC, rumbu wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 February 2017 at 15:21:10 UTC, Andrei 
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 02/25/2017 10:17 AM, rumbu wrote:
>>> A lot of bloat code for something extremely basic.
>>
>> If you can do it with less code, I'm all ears. Thanks! -- 
>> Andrei
>
> This was not about coding skills, was about usability. The 
> module contains too many options and failure scenarios instead 
> of a simple default behavior.
>
> Considering that in most languages with integrated overflow 
> checking, the default behavior is throwing some kind of 
> exception (Ada, C#, Pascal, Rust, Swift)

If you want a module with a lot less features, the low-level 
core.checkedint might be interesting for you:

http://dlang.org/phobos/core_checkedint.html

> this one must be at least [be] highlighted at the top of the 
> documentation.


It is now: 
http://dlang.org/phobos-prerelease/std_experimental_checkedint.html

If this is still unclear, please submit a PR to improve the docs! 
;-)