Moritz Warning wrote:
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ubyte z = 5;
int x = -z; // x now is 251
int y = -1 * z; // y is now -5
Indeed, I've just looked at the spec, and it appears that the promotion
of all smaller integer types to int/uint applies only to binary
operations. Why?
It even arguably breaks the "looks like C, acts like C" principle (which
I thought was the reason behind these promotions in D):
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#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
unsigned char z = 5;
int x = -z; // x now is 251
int y = -1 * z; // y is now -5
printf("%d %d %d\n", z, x, y);
return 0;
}
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5 -5 -5
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(DMC 8.42n Win)
Stewart.
