Signed word lengths and indexes

[Walter Bright]

Walter Bright wrote:
> I think you are giving zero weight to the D features that assist kernel 
> programming.

What bothers me about this discussion is consider D with features 1 2 3 4, and 
language X with features 1 2 5. X is determined to be better than D because X 
has feature 5, but since X does not have features 3 and 4, therefore 3 and 4 are 
irrelevant.

For example, the more I use scope guard statements, the more of a game changer I 
believe they are in eliminating the usual rat's nest of goto's one finds in C code.