Re: Can we disallow appending integer to string?

[Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 19 April 2017 at 14:36:13 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote:
This bug is fixed as the code no longer segfaults but throws 
instead:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5995
void main(){
        string ret;
        int i = -1;
        ret ~= i;
}

Why is it legal to append an integer?

Because integrals implicitly convert to characters of same width 
(byte -> char, short -> wchar, int -> dchar).