IntStream.sum

Doug Lea dl at cs.oswego.edu
Wed Jan 16 10:04:37 PST 2013


On 01/16/13 12:53, Remi Forax wrote:

> Anyway, i'm clearly in minority and I don't think this issue deserve a long thread,
> so I'm fine with the long return value.
>

FWIW, I'm with you on this. I think that if people want to
avoid overflow using longs, then they should use longs!
Doing this as a convenience here and there just postpones the
inevitable, and makes it more likely that an overflow bug
elsewhere in people's code will stay hidden.

-Doug




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