Signed word lengths and indexes

[Walter Bright]

Walter Bright wrote:
> The people who do understand transitive const and need no convincing are 
> the functional programming crowd. What's interesting are the languages 
> which claim to offer FP features, as that's the latest bandwagon, but 
> totally miss transitive const.

I wish to add that I've not heard any proposal or discussion of adding 
transitive const to C++0x, Java, or C#.