On Wednesday, 16 March 2016 at 21:49:05 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
No, please don't. Assigning a signed value to an unsigned (and
vice versa) is very useful, and there is no good reason to
break this.
-Steve
I agree, but implicitly allowing for comparisons between the two
allows for easy and *silent* mistakes. Also for comparisons of
less-than-zero, for those functions we have that return -1 on
failure.
import std.string : indexOf;
size_t pos = "banana".indexOf("c");
if (pos > 0) {
// oops
}
The above is naturally a programmer error but it's not something
that will net you an immediate crash. It will just silently not
behave as you meant, and you'll find yourself with a lot of fake
bananas.
