Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
>> I believe that a right shift of a negative number implemented as is by 
>> gcc is
>> 'surprising' and does not follow the principle of 'least surprise'.
>
> I can partially agree with that , but the "principle of least surprise"
> can not be applied without stating who the audience is. For *me* the
> least surprise is when portability issues in my code give the weirdest
> results possible. So a shift left of a negative number should order pizza.

This doesn't make any sense. :)

I'm quite sure that Wouter would freak out if a pizza delivery guy knocked 
on his door after he did a "shift left" on a negative number.

Vitaliy 

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