How can one switch off range checking for a part of a file. Switching off is easy, but how do I revert to the project setting later on? The pseudo-code below should explain it: Unit1; //here's ra...

Is it possible to create a templated function that checks if a primitive data type can fit a value of potentially different primitive data type? Let's limit the scope to integer types for the momen...

So I just came across what seems to me like a strange Python feature and wanted some clarification about it. The following array manipulation somewhat makes sense: p = [1,2,3] p[3:] = [4] p = [...

I stumbled upon this piece of code in .NET's List source code: // Following trick can reduce the range check by one if ((uint) index >= (uint)_size) { ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeExcept...

I want to check whether the given coordinates are withing an array or not. public boolean checkBounds(int x, int y) { try { Object val = array[x][y]; return true; } catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBound...

I'm trying to implement an instantiator function for my Bound template wrapper but I can't get it to work. I need this in order to convince people at work that we should switch from Ada to D. I w...

Consider: {$R+} i:= 1; While i > 0 do i:= i + 1; ShowMessage(IntToStr(i)); If I declare i as Byte, Word, Shortint or TinyInt I get a range-check error, as expected. If I declare i as LongWor...

I have a program that assigns an array beyond it's bounds, and I was expecting a run-time error to be thrown. Yet no error is raised at all and the program proceeds to write into undeclared memory....