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You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow

177 points · 106 comments · ronreiter

  1. sph · · focus · HN ↗
    Yet another downside of using ‘safe’ languages. You don’t get cool stuff like this.
    1. CodesInChaos · · focus · HN ↗
      Many safe languages still suffer from integer overflows. For example in Rust and C# you can pick between an exception being thrown, or silent wrapping when an overflow happens.
      1. vhcr · · focus · HN ↗
        Or using the saturating methods.
      2. bigstrat2003 · · focus · HN ↗
        I don't think that's suffering at that point. The programmer has made an explicit decision to let things overflow, so he should be prepared to handle that possibility. It's not like a language where overflow happens silently without warning.
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