[snagglegaggle]

I was holding out for hardware enforced overflow and underflow checking but I guess it has been abandoned. Thanks for the info. These choices are being made as was made opposite in C standard deliberations... I am interested to see how it will work out.

[steveklabnik]

The way we’re dealing with that is that there’s room in the spec where we’re allowed to turn it to “always checked” as a compiler setting, and will if it ever gets good enough hardware support. We’ll see though!