Safer Integers

General Usage
1

Is it possible to throw an exception automatically when something like this happens:

print(typemax(UInt) + 2)

This returns 1.

2

There is:

julia> Base.Checked.checked_add(typemax(UInt), 2)
ERROR: OverflowError()
Stacktrace:
 [1] checked_add at ./checked.jl:165 [inlined]
 [2] checked_add(::UInt64, ::Int64) at ./checked.jl:19
3

You could create a package that defines Integer types that use Base.Checked routines for all arithmetic operations. See RoundingIntegers as a possible starting point.

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SaferIntegers

untested – and the floor is open to suggestions while I am here today.

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wow, nice!! I think this will be useful.