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"Ioannis Vranos" <ivr@remove.this.grad.com> wrote in message 
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>> Myself thinks though that this whole range specialisation thing is 
>> non-sense for regular application programming at least.
>
>
> Indeed. :-)
>
>
Not all of us do "regular application programming."  I write 
mission-critical systems.  In such an environment, it is non-sense NOT to 
define ranges for data types that have them.  I would rather it "failed 
loudly" when a variable strayed out of range and raised an exception I can 
recover from, then continuing to run, causing unknown or undefined behavior.