dmd 1.046 and 2.031 releases

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

Robert Jacques wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:33:24 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>> Robert Jacques wrote:
>>> BTW: this means byte and short are not closed under arithmetic 
>>> operations, which drastically limit their usefulness.
>>
>> I think they shouldn't be closed because they overflow for relatively 
>> small values.
> 
> Andrei, consider anyone who want to do image manipulation (or computer 
> vision, video, etc). Since images are one of the few areas that use 
> bytes extensively, and have to map back into themselves, they are 
> basically sorry out of luck.
> 
	Wrong example: in most cases, when doing image manipulations, you 
don't want the overflow to wrap but instead to be clipped. Having 
the compiler notify you when there is a risk of an overflow and 
require you to be explicit in how you want it to be handled is 
actually a good thing IMO.

		Jerome
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