[OT] The Usual Arithmetic Confusions

[Elronnd]

On Monday, 31 January 2022 at 08:38:28 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> Not if you work around it

Maybe I was insufficiently clear.  I'm not talking about the case 
where you work around it, but the case where you leave the 'dead' 
code in..

> but ask yourself: is it a good idea to design your language
> in such a way that the compiler is unable to remove this

If you use modular arithmetic, then yes, you should not permit 
the compiler to remove that condition.