Am 06.09.2013 13:27, schrieb Dicebot:
On Friday, 6 September 2013 at 11:04:31 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
Implicit conversions open up a whole can of worms for the sake of a
small amount of convenience.
I'm not sure it's a fair trade.
Agreed. It was quite common source of troubles in my C++ days and have
never offered much convenience.
Its only a source of troubles in C++ because it is the default behavior.
But if you design a library it can make the usage of your api easier and
also you have a few more options to stay backwards compatible with your
old api.