dmd 1.046 and 2.031 releases

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
news:h2vprn$1t77$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
> This is a different beast. We simply couldn't devise a satisfactory scheme 
> within the constraints we have. No simple solution we could think of has 
> worked, nor have a number of sophisticated solutions. Ideas would be 
> welcome, though I need to warn you that the devil is in the details so the 
> ideas must be fully baked; too many good sounding high-level ideas fail 
> when analyzed in detail.
>

I assume then that you've looked at something lke C#'s checked/unchecked 
scheme and someone's (I forget who) idea of expanding that to something like 
unchecked(overflow, sign)? What was wrong with those sorts of things?