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On 07/11/2017 01:09 PM, Karl Williamson wrote: > 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. There is a specific cost here Graham noted. This method is currently used to determine if a variable is a number without loading "B", which isn't cheap. While it is a simple argument of "users shouldn't care," serializations (like JSON) need to be able to map them to their right type. It would be nice if there was a way to do this without B.Thread Previous | Thread Next