Time to move std.experimental.checkedint to std.checkedint ?

tsbockman thomas.bockman at gmail.com
Wed Mar 31 04:32:45 UTC 2021


On Wednesday, 31 March 2021 at 03:32:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 3/30/21 7:01 PM, tsbockman wrote:
>> Simply flipping compiler switches (the -ftrapv and -fwrapv 
>> flags in gcc Andrei mentioned earlier) won't work, because 
>> most high performance code contains some deliberate and 
>> correct examples of wrapping overflow, signed-unsigned 
>> reinterpretation, etc.
>> 
>> Idiomatic Zig code (probably Ada, too) does contain this 
>> information. But, the selection of "real world" open source 
>> Zig code available for testing is limited right now, since Zig 
>> hasn't stabilized the language or the standard library yet.
>
> That's awfully close to "No true Scotsman".

Just tossing out names of fallacies isn't really very helpful if 
you don't explain why you think it may apply here.


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