Ellery Newcomer wrote:
On 07/05/2010 07:59 AM, Stewart Gordon wrote:
bearophile wrote:
Stewart Gordon:
I can also imagine promoting your mindset leading to edit wars
between developers declaring an int and then putting
assert (qwert >= 0);
in the class invariant, and those who see this and think it's
brain-damaged.
As opposed to doing what?
Just using uint, of course!
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Another important difference is the point of non-'continuity'
with a signed integer, that point is *.max/min. Assuming typical usage
of integers centers around zero, this point doesn't get hit frequently.
with an unsigned integer, that point is 0. Assuming the same, this point
gets hit much more frequently, which has important implications for
subtraction and comparison.
Subtraction - yes, obviously.
Comparison - how do you mean?
Stewart.
