No, of course that was news to me. But I am not advocating any programming language. This looks like a wart, but a compelling one to commit to, because it's a simple solution.

> It may not seem obvious and it may seem logically inconsistent but, ...

An if an argument is made in defense of inconsistent logic, how could the argument be expected to be logically consistent?

Your argument by authority is not very good. There are involved explanations on stackoverflow.com, but I didn't bother to read, yet. Another solution would be to set the carry flag.