2009/6/11 Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com>: > davidl wrote: >> >> It seems that comparing two different operands with different size makes >> no sense. The compiler should issue an error against that. > > Consider: > > byte b; > if (b == 1) > > here you're comparing two different sizes, a byte and an int. Disallowing > such (in its various incarnations) is a heavy burden, as the user will have > to insert lots of ugly casts.
Weren't polysemous types supposed to avoid all that?
