[Gambas-devel] gb3: recent revision regarding FOR...NEXT loops and counter variables

Benoît Minisini gambas at ...1...
Thu Sep 1 23:28:07 CEST 2011


> 
> Would be nicer if it simply halted execution with an overflow error.
> Silent overflow could be used as a feature, but if it was unintentional
> it would be hard to find the error in logic if you didn't realize what
> was happening. The program would keep running but behave unexpectedly.
> Are people actually using this as a feature by intentionally overflowing
> variables?

I can't detect overflow in C fast enough. Doing that will slow down the 
interpreter a lot.

-- 
Benoît Minisini




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