Time to move std.experimental.checkedint to std.checkedint ?
Jacob Carlborg
doob at me.com
Tue Mar 30 15:28:04 UTC 2021
On Tuesday, 30 March 2021 at 03:31:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Note that Zig has a very different idea of integers than D
> does. It has arbitrary bit width integers, up to 65535. This
> seems odd, as what are you going to do with a 6 bit integer?
> There aren't machine instructions to support it. It'd be better
> off with a ranged integer, say:
>
> i : int 0..64
The question is then, does that mean that Zig has over 131070
keywords (65535 for signed and unsigned each)? :D. Or does it
reserve anything that starts with i/u followed by numbers? Kind
of like how D reveres identifiers starting with two underscores.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
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