[swift-evolution] [Discussion] Breaking precedence

[Anton Zhilin]

2016-08-03 0:46 GMT+03:00 Xiaodi Wu <xiaodi.wu at gmail.com>:

> It's not that << will overflow and / will not. Substitute * for / and the
> argument would be the same. The difference is that << traps when you shift
> more than the total number of bits but does *not* trap when you shift
> numbers off as would arithmetic exponentiation; * traps on overflow. Thus,
> what << is concerned about is the bits (as it should), but * is concerned
> about the max representable value.


Substitute * for / and my argument would also be the same :)
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