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From: Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
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On 5/15/2011 8:11 AM, markspace wrote:
> On 5/15/2011 7:35 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
>> I don't think adding exceptions for arithmetic overflow would be a
>> sensible change as a modification for Java. If it affected existing code
>> it would break a lot of programs.
>
>
> And if you'd read what I actually wrote, you'd see that I asked for an
> *OPTIONAL* keyword that could be used when modulo arithmetic is not
> desirable.
>

Indeed. Indeed, that is why the immediately following sentence in my
article was "If it did not, it would add a lot of complexity to the
language.". You would, in effect, end up with two sets of rules for Java
arithmetic, plus the rules for deciding which rules to apply to each
calculation.

Patricia