Signed word lengths and indexes

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Don wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> Note that your argument is predicated on using signed types instead 
>>>> of unsigned types in the first place, and tacitly assumes the issue 
>>>> is frequent enough to *add a new operator*. Yet unsigned shifts 
>>>> correlate naturally with unsigned numbers.
>>>>
>>>> So what is exactly that is valuable in >>> that makes its presence 
>>>> in the language justifiable?
>>>
>>> Generally the irritation I feel whenever I right shift and have to go 
>>> back through and either check the type or just cast it to unsigned to 
>>> be sure there is no latent bug.
>>
>> But x >>> 1 doesn't work for shorts and bytes.
> 
> I know. That's ill thought out.

The please rule it out of the language.

Andrei