On 07/10/2017 11:12 PM, Father Chrysostomos wrote: > Karl Williamson wrote: >> I don't yet have a fully formulated opinion on this, but one question I >> would have is "How is this different from division by 0" that people >> seem to deal ok with. > > Fatal division by zero is ancient. Fatalizing bitwise operations on > utf8 breaks stuff. > > As I suggested in another thread (I seem to have been ignored), it > would be *much* kinder to users to make it a warning. (Wide character > in blah blah blah.) That way users who care can fatalize it, or sup- > press it. You have the best of all three worlds. > I believe I've referred to your suggestion in some thread. It is the minimum we should do. And others believe it should be deprecated.Thread Previous | Thread Next