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How so? If you specify the type int how would that save you from an overflow/underflow at runtime?





Not sure if types are supposed to protect against overflow/underflow, it's more in the arithmetic territory. Interesting idea though, I wonder if some programming language allows overflow/underflow checks directly in the types.



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