Signed word lengths and indexes

[Walter Bright]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:24:52 -0400, Don <nospam at nospam.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> A question I have though is, Java has >>>. Does Java have these 
>> problems too?
> 
> Java doesn't have unsigned values, so it's necessary to use regular 
> int's as bitmasks, hence the extra operator.

The reason D has >>> is to cause an unsigned right shift to be generated without 
needing to resort to casts as one has to in C.

The problem with such casts is they wreck generic code.