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		ratmice 9 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nimony (Nim 3.0) Design Principles Presumably since this language isn't C they can define it however they want to, for instance in rust std::i32::MIN.wrapping_sub(1) is a perfectly valid number.

xigoi 9 days ago [–]

Nim (the original one, not Nimony) compiles to C, so making basic types work differently from C would involve major performance costs.

beagle3 8 days ago | [–]

And yet, Nim does overflow checking by default.

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