On Wed, 1 Mar 2023 at 18:54, Jonathan Wakely via Std-Proposals <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

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> On Wed, 1 Mar 2023, 20:48 Ray Gardener via Std-Proposals, <
> std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>> Not gonna lie, if I see code exploiting integer overflow, I reject it. It
>> just smells hoity-toity. I like code to be dead obvious.
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>> And as for assigning negative numbers to unsigned types, whatever
>> happened to type safety?
>>
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> Would you prefer -1zu then? That's a literal of type size_t so there's no
> negative number and no question of it being not "type safe". It means
> exactly the same thing though.
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Strictly speaking, it's a unary expression where the cast-expression is a
literal of type size_t. I'm not entirely sure that size_t can't promote to
int, although obviously it doesn't on any sensible platform.

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