On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 2:03 PM Jeff Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's a huge
> help to have a compile-time constraint that values can't be negative.

The question is, how useful is that guarantee. Suppose you have some
code that decrements an integer too far, past zero. Instead of having
a -1 you'll have a 4294967295. Is that an improvement? Will it give
the code saner behaviour than the -1?

Cheers,
Botond
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