Treating the abusive unsigned syndrome

[Ary Borenszweig]

bearophile wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu:
>> The problem is, it's much more annoying than one might imagine. Even 
>> array.length - 1 is up for scrutiny. Technically, even array.length + 1 
>> is a problem because 1 is really a signed int. We could provide 
>> exceptions for constants, but exceptions are generally not solving the 
>> core issue.
> 
> That can be solved making array.length signed.

I agree. I proposed this some time ago. For example, even though C# has 
unsigned types, the length of a list, array, etc., is always int. In 
this way, they prevented the bugs and problems everyone mention here.