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[2a00:1450:400c:c01::235]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 137si249407wma.32.2017.01.07.12.07.58 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 07 Jan 2017 12:07:58 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of db0451@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:400c:c01::235 as permitted sender) client-ip=2a00:1450:400c:c01::235; Original-Received: by mail-wj0-x235.google.com with SMTP id kq3so4910990wjc.0 for ; Sat, 07 Jan 2017 12:07:58 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.194.209.136 with SMTP id mm8mr771414wjc.149.1483819678244; Sat, 07 Jan 2017 12:07:58 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.28.144.66 with HTTP; Sat, 7 Jan 2017 12:07:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-Original-Sender: db0451@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of db0451@gmail.com designates 2a00:1450:400c:c01::235 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=db0451@gmail.com; dmarc=pass (p=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=gmail.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list std-proposals@isocpp.org; contact std-proposals+owners@isocpp.org List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 399137483710 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.proposals:30403 Archived-At: --047d7b3a8c2cd526a0054586b0b7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 That said, if you could elaborate on situations in which you think casting to int, adding, then casting back formally improves things, then I'd be interested. I had a thread here before, about the subtraction issue, and other workarounds were proposed - which, while ingenious and frankly hilarious in their inventiveness, really made me wish a lot of things were better defined. As is, we have this codified concept of 'sequence of unsigned char' but it doesn't seem *useful* for anything... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ISO C++ Standard - Future Proposals" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to std-proposals+unsubscribe@isocpp.org. To post to this group, send email to std-proposals@isocpp.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/isocpp.org/d/msgid/std-proposals/CACGiwhHU_WKe4q-0DFS5pdHcJHAvt%2BL7-gOwM9YzozNMDBAefQ%40mail.gmail.com. --047d7b3a8c2cd526a0054586b0b7 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
That said, if you could elaborate on situations in wh= ich you think casting to int, adding, then casting back formally improves t= hings, then I'd be interested.

I had a thread here before,= about the subtraction issue, and other workarounds were proposed - which, = while ingenious and frankly hilarious in their inventiveness, really made m= e wish a lot of things were better defined. As is, we have this codified co= ncept of 'sequence of unsigned char' but it doesn't seem use= ful for anything...

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