[M3devel] Enumeration or subrange value out of range

[Jay K]

> Let them rot in C hell.
 
 
It's really not a bad place.
 
 
 Modula-3 is good: 
   optional safety, optional unsafety  
     ie: optional garbage collection, restrictions on taking address of locals, range checks on arrays 
   better interface/implementation separation, such as to allow much faster compilation  
   single inheritance object-orientation is nice, but I'd prefer for the safety 
    to be optional (untraced objects) and multiple-inheritance 
   generics are good, but not as good as C++ templates  
   sets are kind of nice  
   optionally indexing arrays by enums is kind of nice  
   open arrays are kind of nice (relates to safety)  
   Very small language definition is good, but I'd still like e.g. operator overloading, at least with a "fixed" 
interface as I described T +(T,T), never T1 +(T2, T3) for example. 
 
 
But I don't see why not providing these types is so good.
I can see that maybe it is partly/all library instead of language.
 
 
As well, as so much code is C, C++, or even Java and C#, it is what the hardware supports well.
 i.e. 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit operations are efficient, and 64 bit are also sometimes 
 
 
 - Jay