Re: Saturated Arithmetic (Forked from Swift: overflow raises an error)

[Doug Currie <doug.currie@...>]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Tim Hill <drtimhill@gmail.com> wrote:

 

I wasn’t saying that overflow was a good thing, but as I noted saturation/clamped arithmetic is not a panacea either.

Other options include bignums (so integers never overflow, at least until they exhaust memory), or silent conversion of overflow to floating point.

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