dmd 1.046 and 2.031 releases

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "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? 

An unchecked-based approach was not on the table. Our focus was more on 
checking things properly, instead of over-checking and then relying on 
"unchecked" to disable that.

Andrei