Tom Lane wrote:
> And I still find the premise entirely unconvincing.
> Maybe the user *wants* to see the local behavior of shift, whatever
> it might be. It's certainly not impossible that we'd break applications
> that worked fine before (at least on the hardware they were being
> used on).
Certainly someone who uses shift operators is more prone to accept
architecture-dependent behaviors. Those who like to take a more abstract
view can use regular arithmetic.