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Re: Java puzzler

Date	2011-05-12 18:18 -0700
From	Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Java puzzler
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On 5/12/2011 5:40 PM, markspace wrote:
> On 5/12/2011 4:05 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
>
>> If (byte)100 + (byte)100 caused an overflow, I would need an unsigned
>> byte type to do the same job.
>
> OK, I think I understand. If the goal is to allow unsigned arithmetic
> with automatic overflow detection, they we'd have to add unsigned
> integer primitives to the language.

The original proposal was to make all arithmetic detect overflow, and
that would remove the existing ability to do unsigned arithmetic by
ignoring overflow.

If overflow detection is to be applied conditionally, it would keep all
the complexities of undetected overflow, and add rules for deciding when
to do overflow detection.

Patricia

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