Signed word lengths and indexes
Walter Bright
newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Mon Jun 14 18:27:14 PDT 2010
Ellery Newcomer wrote:
> On 06/14/2010 05:48 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> D provides powerful abstractions for iteration; it is becoming less and
>> less desirable to hand-build loops with for-statements.
>
> Ooo ooo, can we remove it?
No :-)
>> I have a hard time believing that Python and Ruby are more productive
>> primarily because they do not have an unsigned type.
>
> They're more productive because their built in number types aren't
> fixnums. That's a nice large class of errors that don't exist in those
> languages.
Like I said, this didn't appear in Python until quite recently (3.0), so that
cannot be the primary productivity advantage of Python.
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