# A plea for int overflow checking as the default

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-plea-for-int-overflow-checking-as-the-default/3338>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** question, proposal, integer-overflow\
**Created:** [April 22, 2017, 3:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-plea-for-int-overflow-checking-as-the-default/3338 "2017-04-22T15:49:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![simonbyrne](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/simonbyrne/32/19_2.png) [@simonbyrne](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/simonbyrne)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 10:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-plea-for-int-overflow-checking-as-the-default/3338/64 "2018-02-05T22:37:49Z")

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