checkedint call removal

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 01:55:39PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 8/1/2014 12:09 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> >	A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day. "In
> >	English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive. In some
> >	languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a
> >	negative. However, there is no language wherein a double
> >	positive can form a negative." A voice from the back of the room
> >	piped up, "Yeah, yeah."
> 
> English is quite the merry language with this. (Reversing the meaning
> of "merry", ho-ho!)
> 
> It's also why D doesn't support ! in version, and why I'm a strong
> advocate of not having negated features.
> 
> Of course, D has "no-throw" and "im-mutable". Arggh.

Well, if we could turn back the clock and redesign D based on our
experience, we'd have "throwing" and "mutable" as modifiers instead of
"nothrow" and "immutable". :)

Not to mention "impure" instead of "pure".


T

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