OverFlow Error

[bquinn17]

I was wondering if I could get some more information on issue #169 that was closed before, and why it was decided to be handled that way. The value FFFF is equivalent to 65535 in decimal, not 32767 so I'm not sure why the error is thrown at that value. Also, the original MARIE implementation would not throw an error when the value FFFF was passed. It would simply wrap around to a negative number, and continue to be incremented from there. This is also the same way overflows of primitive types work in most programming languages.

[bquinn17]

I just realized the value 32767 is used because you're using a signed decimal representation.

[ericjiang97]

Hi,

Thanks for submitting an issue!

While, we do agree that we shouldn't handle Overflow Errors. We have encountered with end-users that when it goes beyond the range -32767 to 32767, it slows down their browser and may cause crashes (especially on low end devices), to make it more crash 'gracefully' we decided to make it throw an error when it goes beyond the range.

If you have have a better solution, feel free to fork this project and make a Pull Request.

[auroranil]

PR #328 has been merged. It should fix this issue.