> An infinite loop should compile to an infinite loop.
I think that a compiler option should control this. It can be a nice optimization, but the programmer should be able to opt out.
I think that a compiler option should control this. It can be a nice optimization, but the programmer should be able to opt out.
It's not perfect, but the forest of such switches in C compilers motivated D to not have them.
Ada explicitly settled on `Character` being an enumeration type based on a specific character set encoding. When I learned Ada 95, the ARM specified the ISO 8859-1 character set for `Character`, likewise with `Wide_Character` and `Wide_Wide_Character` explicitly settling on 16- and 32-bit implementations of UCS. I wish more language specifications made decisions like this.
D following suit with tying its `char`, `wchar`, and `dchar` to UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 is commendable.