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I came across this sentence of two people drinking coffee/tea late at night:
A:「悪くはないが……明日も授業があるだろ？」
B:「ええ、勿論です。……心配しなくとも、寝坊などはしませんよ」
my understanding is that person B is saying "Don't worry, I won't oversleep" but I'm not sure how 心配しなくとも works here. is it similar to 心配しなくてもいい with the いい being omitted?
とも attached to the 終止形 of a verb, or 連用形 of an adjective, has the meaning of 'even if'. It has a classical/literary flavour about it.
しなくとも = (modern Japanese) しなくても
するとも = (modern Japanese) しても
