On Monday, 12 February 2024 at 17:26:25 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote:
On Friday, 9 February 2024 at 15:19:32 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
It's been discussed many, many times. The behavior is not
going to change - there won't even be a compiler warning.
(You'll have to check with the leadership for their reasons.)
Was (part of) the reason because it would disrupt existing
code? If that was the blocker then editions are the solution.
I don't want to write a speculative answer on Walter's reasoning,
but I know that (a) this has come up many times, and (b) I've
never seen him express an opinion that anything in the language
related to unsigned types is problematic. I can't imagine that he
has any intention of changing it, given the number of times it's
been raised, but I can't claim any special knowledge of his views.
