28 May
2006
28 May
'06
2:48 a.m.
"Maarten Kronenburg" <M.Kronenburg@inter.nl.net> writes:
Douglas, This is the same discussion I had with Gehard about the negate(). Negating an unsigned with value zero is perfectly legal. When it is not zero, it can throw an exception, as a good numeric class is supposed to do.
Opening up the interface for to negation just because it somehow "makes sense" for one singular value of the type, thereby turning a static check into a dynamic one, seems like a terribly flawed design choice to me. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com