Re: constexpr keyword is unnecessary

On 29.10.2024 15:13, David Brown wrote:

 
[...]  I am /certainly/ not
convinced "truncate" is a good name - the general term, AFAIK, for a
conversion that might try to squeeze a large value into a smaller type
is "narrowing" rather than "truncating".

Algol 68 has an operator called 'shorten' for that (which resembles
the 'long'/'short' type naming). - Just to throw in an alternative
name (which also fits to "C" with its [similar] long/short types).

Janis